goose, electric or synthetic

i am stuck in a contradiction, insulated by my own hypocricy...

today i made a vain attempt to balance reason with social responsibility and an innate desire to do right by my 'green footprint'.

in an age of electrical crisis and heightened global awareness i fought animal rights activism with a bid to save the environment and i cant deduce who won.

its freezing down here at the edge of civilisation. driven by a fear of robbing the national grid of its already sparce supply of energy or a creature of all its warmth in the worst of months i allowed a sales assistant to assure me that no animal was harmed during the manufacture of my purchase and that the product was gathered in summer resulting in the fluffy being lying as toasty as i am right now.

i could have gone for a synthetic version. i could have chosen the alternate not as warm unnatural byproduct of some factory out in the back end of china but i abated the voices in my subconscious to believe that this would place me as a contributing cog in the manufacture of harmful cfc emissions and possible violent infringements of human rights and certain labour relations that many citizens of this planet are not granted the protection of.

either path today was a hard one. the belief that the little goose, running free range, was painlessly plucked in the summer and lies warm as i in the winter and that the product is proudly manufactured from all material and persons in a free constitutional democracy lulls me into a false sense of security that i put the right foot forward...