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Originally Posted: March 19, 2013
[Ed. Note: Please watch Plucking the Down from Geese]
FROM People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
ACTION
Tell The North Face to STOP stuffing their jackets, sleeping bags and other products with the feathers of tortured ducks and geese.
Sign an online petition (copy/paste URL into your browser):
https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=4695&autologin=true&utm_campaign=0313%20North%20Face%20Action%20Alert&utm_source=PETA%20E-Mail&utm_medium=Alert
And/or better yet, make direct contact:
Todd Spaletto
President, The North Face
The North Face
2013 Farallon Dr.
San Leandro, CA 94577
phone (510) 618-3500
online contact form:
http://www.thenorthface.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/TNFContactUsView?catalogId=10201&langId=-1&storeId=207&KeepThis=true&startDOMWindow&iframeDOMWindow=true
INFORMATION / TALKING POINTS
The North Face stuffs its jackets and sleeping bags with feathers from
birds who are force-fed for the cruel production of foie gras. Force-feeding
is a painful process in which birds have tubes rammed down their throats and
their stomachs pumped so full of corn mush that their livers swell to as
much as 10 times their normal size. Foie gras producers boost their profits
by selling the feathers from these force-fed birds.
Other birds used for down are often pinned down as hurried workers yank
fistfuls of feathers from the birds' sensitive bodies while they are still
alive, often plucking them so violently that they rip open the birds'
delicate skin, and then sew up the gaping wounds using a needle and thread
and no painkillers.
The vast majority of birds used for down spend their entire lives in
crowded, filthy conditions on factory farms. When they are sent to
slaughter, their throats are slit—often while fully conscious—and many are
scalded to death in defeathering tanks. All down comes from birds who suffer
and die violently and painfully.
Thank you for everything you do for animals!
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