Foreword: Strategies to improve farm animal welfare and reduce long distance transport of livestock going to slaughter

Long Distance Transport and Welfare of Farm Animals

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Grandin, Temple ^a  

^a Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

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