Introduction: Effect of customer requirements, international standards and marketing structure on the handling and transport of livestock and poultry

Livestock Handling and Transport: Third Edition

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  Grandin, Temple ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

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