Livestock: Food, Fiber, and Friends

Livestock: Food, Fiber, and Friends by Erin McKenna

University of Georgia Press

March 2018, 264 pages

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Erin McKenna is a professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Oregon.

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Erin McKenna

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2018

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