A notional ethical contract with farm animals in a sustainable global food system

Sustainable Farmland Management: Transdisciplinary Approaches

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 125-134

  Mepham, Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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