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[email protected] ding items or sleeping bags down is popular around the vide almost weightless warmth because down is derived from birds many consumers and producers are con- surrounding the production process as one of the world's largest retailers that concern "costco has committed to responsible now requires a certification for all costco production of down and feather prod- what is down? coating clustered beneath the feathers of are the quilled plumage of those birds discovered that the attributes of down and feathers make for excellent insula- tion without a lot of weight lected as a byproduct of the global food and the european union are the largest suppliers of down and feathers