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Animal husbandry

Bixby, Donald E., and others, eds. Taking Stock: The North American Livestock Census. McDonald & Woodward, 1994. Emphasizes the need to protect the genetic diversity of domestic animals.

Board on Science and Technology for International Development, National Research Council. Microlivestock: Little-Known Small Animals with a Promising Economic Future. National Academy Press, 1991. Report on the potential of small livestock species.

Budiansky, Stephen. The Covenant of the Wild: Why Animals Chose Domestication. Morrow, 1992. Evolutionary view of the domestication of animals.

Johnson, Andrew. Factory Farming. Blackwell, 1991. Balanced view of factory rearing of farm animals.

Putnam, Paul A., ed. Handbook of Animal Science. Academic, 1991. Facts and figures on all aspects of domesticated animals.