The Concept of Animal Welfare at the Interface between Producers and Scientists: The Example of Organic Pig Farming

Acta Biotheoretica

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 173-183

  Leeb, Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Ethics; Improvement; Naturalness; Organic; Transdisciplinarity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL WELFARE; BENCHMARKING; DISEASE CONTROL; ETHICS; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; ORGANIC FARMING; PIG; PLANNING PRACTICE; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL RIGHTS; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ETHICAL THEORY; ETHICS; EUROPE; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIC FARMING; SWINE;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL RIGHTS; ANIMAL WELFARE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ETHICAL THEORY; ETHICS; EUROPE; ORGANIC AGRICULTURE; SWINE;

AUSTRALIA; EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE;

EID: 79956301064     PISSN: 00015342     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10441-011-9135-z     Document Type: Article

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