If you buy from a reputable retailer then that's great, but please watch if you get it from ebay or other places that you can't be sure of the origin. A well known international down jacket/bag manufacturer recently had the misfortune of buying a LOT of down at a very cheap price from a particular Asian company and it later came out that the down was "harvested" by spraying high pressure water jets over live birds.

Apparently this practice is more widespread than you might think, so just a word of caution, watch where you get your down from