Belgian consumers' attitude towards surgical castration and immuno-castration of piglets

Animal Welfare

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 371-380

  Vanhonacker, F ^a   Verbeke, W ^a,b   Tuyttens, F A M ^a,b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL AND FISHERIES RESEARCH ILVO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Attitude; Consumer acceptability; Immunocastration; Pigs; Vaccination

Indexed keywords

VACCINE;

ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL HEALTH; ANIMAL WELFARE; AWARENESS; CASTRATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSUMER ATTITUDE; FOOD SAFETY; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOCASTRATION; MARKET; MEAT; NONHUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; PIGLET; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL CASTRATION; TASTE;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE;

EID: 70449688268     PISSN: 09627286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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