We encourage you, as a consumer, to ask for a guarantee that no down and feathers plucked from live ducks and geese have been used in the duvet you buy. DYKON does not accept feathers and down from birds that are plucked alive. And we always ask for a written guarantee from our suppliers that their down does not come from live birds or force-fed foie gras geese and ducks. The filling in our products comes exclusively from industrially slaughtered birds.