Defining the concept of animal welfare: Integrating the opinion of citizens and other stakeholders

Ethics and the Politics of Food: Preprints of the 6th Congress of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 555-559

  Van Poucke, Els ^a   Vanhonacker, Filiep ^a   Nijs, Griet ^a   Braeckman, Johan ^a   Verbeke, Wim ^a   Tuyttens, Frank ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL AND FISHERIES RESEARCH ILVO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Citizens; Definition; Farm animals; Stakeholders

Indexed keywords

EID: 44449109838     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.3920/978-90-8686-575-8     Document Type: Chapter

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