Saddle Rooster

Do all saddle feathers come from slaughtered birds?

Can saddle feathers (http://www.amazon.com/Whiting-100S-97preselected-Saddle-Feathers-Preselected/dp/B003D78ZKE) be harvested without killing roosters? Are there any companies that sell feathers (from roosters or otherwise; the flexible kind that can be used to make hair extensions) that come from humane/no-kill sources? I’d like to make my own feather hair extensions, but I am an environmental and animal rights activist and I would feel very wrong supporting companies that get their products via slaughtering animals. For some reason, there seems to be very little information out there concerning how certain companies get their feathers.

When you pluck a feather out of a bird, it hurts. The most humane way to collect feathers is to kill the bird, remove the feathers, and the process the bird for eating. That way most of the bird gets used. The bird was gonna die anyhow. Maybe you could make something from rabbit fur. There are a lot of cute little bunnies killed in the tilling, cultivation, and harvest of vegetables. They are basically wasted and most people don’t even realize the number that are killed in producing food for vegetarians. The ones that have gone through a straw chopper on a harvester would be too mangled to be useful for anything, but if one was cut in half or had its legs cut of with a mower or disk would probably be salvageable.

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