Turning cheap fish into expensive fish? The ethical examination of an argument about feed conversion rates

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

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 431-436

  Kaiser, Matthias ^a  

^a The National Committees for Research Ethics   (Norway)

Author keywords

Aquaculture; Ethics; Feed conversion; Framing problem; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349792661     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.3920/978-90-8686-575-8     Document Type: Chapter

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