Feed efficiencies in animal production: A non-numerical analysis

Climate Change and Sustainable Development: Ethical Perspectives on Land Use and Food Production

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 196-201

  Boonen, R ^a   Aerts, S ^a   Meganck, M ^a   De Tavernier, J ^a   Lips, D ^a   Decuypere, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ethics; Feed conversion; Monogastric animals; Ruminants

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930986303     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.3920/978-90-8686-753-0_28     Document Type: Chapter

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