Buying higher welfare poultry products? Profiling flemish consumers who do and do not

Poultry Science

Volumn 88, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2702-2711

  Vanhonacker, F ^a   Verbeke, W ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Consumer; Consumption; Flanders; Poultry

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 70449359976     PISSN: 00325791     EISSN: 15253171     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3382/ps.2009-00259     Document Type: Article

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