Technology as Responsibility: Failure, Food Animals, and Lab-grown Meat

Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 931-948

  Galusky, Wyatt ^a  

^a State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Ethics; In vitro meat; Meat; Responsibility; Technology

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ETHICS; MEAT; TECHNOLOGY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84914169052     PISSN: 11877863     EISSN: 1573322X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10806-014-9508-9     Document Type: Article

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