Animal Welfare and Individual Characteristics: A Conversation Against Speciesism
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Animal welfare and individual characteristics: a conversation against speciesism.
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عنوان ژورنال: Ethics & Behavior
سال: 1993
ISSN: 1050-8422,1532-7019
DOI: 10.1207/s15327019eb0302_2