Citizens' Views on Farm Animal Welfare and Related Information Provision: Exploratory Insights from Flanders, Belgium

Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 551-569

  Vanhonacker, Filiep ^a   van Poucke, Els ^b   Tuyttens, Frank ^b   Verbeke, Wim ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

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

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Conceptualization; Information; Labeling; Social attitudes

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL WELFARE; ETHICS; INFORMATION; LIVESTOCK FARMING; PUBLIC ATTITUDE;

BELGIUM; FLANDERS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 78049305141     PISSN: 11877863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10806-010-9235-9     Document Type: Article

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