Insider Series: Why Allied Feather & Down Chose Certification

Q: Tell us about your journey in responsible down?

The journey towards responsible down should be differentiated from the journey towards the Responsible Down Standard.

ALLIED has been involved in the path towards responsible down long before the standards were written. There was no third party industry certification in which the farms and slaughterhouses we had been working with could be audited, so we created our own, working closely with partners to ensure that ALLIED’s material was not c…