• DOI:10.1023/A:1015012403331
Corpus ID: 154772042

Dealing with Ambivalence: Farmers' and Consumers' Perceptions of Animal Welfare in Livestock Breeding

@article{Velde2002DealingWA,
  title={Dealing with Ambivalence: Farmers' and Consumers' Perceptions of Animal Welfare in Livestock Breeding},
  author={Hein Te Velde and N. Aarts and C. V. van Woerkum},
  journal={Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics},
  year={2002},
  volume={15},
  pages={203-219}
}

• Hein Te Velde, N. Aarts, C. V. van Woerkum
• Published 2002
• Medicine
• Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics

The results of an empirical study intoperceptions of the treatment of farm animals inthe Netherlands are presented. A qualitativeapproach, based on in-depth interviews withmeat livestock farmers and consumers was chosenin order to assess motivations behindperceptions and to gain insight into the waypeople deal with possible discrepancies betweentheir perceptions and their daily practices.Perceptions are analyzed with the help of aframe of reference, which consists ofvalues, norms, convictions… Expand

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