I saw on the news today that IKEA has stopped buying feathers for their pillows from certain suppliers as these suppliers pluck the feathers from gooses and ducks while they are alive. It was reported in a certain documentary that in China some sellers pluck these animals about three times before they slaughter them.
Now you would think, whats the big deal, we are shearing sheep as well but apparently plucking feathers hurts about as much as plucking hair from human beings and is forbidden when it comes to these animals.
One of the seven laws of Noah (the laws that are encumbent on all mankind) is prohibiting the consumption of a limb of a living creature. And while this is of course not the same as severing a limb I think the practice would fall under this prohibition as these seven laws of Noah are better reckoned as categories of commandments than single commandments.
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