Culling of day-old chicks: Opening the debates of Moria?

Ethical Futures: Bioscience and Food Horizons

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 117-122

  Aerts, S ^a,b   Boonen, R ^b   Bruggeman, V ^b   De Tavernier, J ^b   Decuypere, E ^b  

^a ODISEE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Gassing; Hatchery; Instrumentalisation; Maceration; Spent animals

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551694692     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.3920/978-90-8686-673-1     Document Type: Chapter

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