Consumer attitudes towards farm animals and their welfare: A pig production case study

Bioscience Horizons

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 156-165

  Tawse, Jacqueline ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Consumer attitudes; Farm animal welfare; Farm animals; Pig production

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053898737     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17547431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biohorizons/hzq020     Document Type: Article

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