@SmartAZ Not vague fears. Yes, I am biased, I have an 18 yr. old pet goose that I raised from a tiny gosling. Geese, especially, are incredibly intelligent and long lived animals.
Foie gras is everywhere, in all the finer restaurants, gourmet stores, imported and exported. Some of the feather products come from that industry, others from the booming European industry, and feather farms where the extremely inhumane practice of live plucking occurs.
There are no cruelty free feather or down products out there. This is one issue I have taken under my wing as an otherwise not militant type, but I am militant about the Pate and feather plucking industries.