Using science to support ethical decisions promoting humane livestock slaughter and vertebrate pest control

Animal Welfare

Volumn 13, Issue SUPPL., 2004, Pages

  Mellor, D J ^a   Littin, K E ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Ethics; Humane pest control; Humane slaughter; Minimising harm; Scientific assessment of harm

Indexed keywords

POISON;

ANIMAL CARE; ANIMAL WELFARE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONSCIOUSNESS; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FATALITY; LIVESTOCK; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; METHODOLOGY; NECK INJURY; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PEST CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SENSIBILITY; THINKING; VALIDATION PROCESS; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 1542580573     PISSN: 09627286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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