Attitudes of European citizens towards pig production systems

Livestock Science

Volumn 126, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 46-56

  Krystallis, Athanasios ^a   de Barcellos, Marcia Dutra ^a,b   Kügler, Jens Oliver ^a   Verbeke, Wim ^c   Grunert, Klaus G ^a  

^a AARHUS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS   (Denmark)

^b PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Citizen; Cluster; Conjoint analysis; Consumer; Pig production system

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE;

EID: 70349227004     PISSN: 18711413     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.livsci.2009.05.016     Document Type: Article

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