Handling and welfare of livestock in slaughter plants

Livestock Handling and Transport: Third Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 329-353

  Grandin, Temple ^a  

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

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