Premature culling of production animals; ethical questions related to killing animals in food production

The End of Animal Life: A Start for Ethical Debate

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 149-165

  Bruijnis, M R N ^a   Meijboom, F L B ^b   Stassen, E N ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Longevity; Production animals

Indexed keywords

EID: 85028996935     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.3920/978-90-8686-808-7_10     Document Type: Chapter

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