Adolescents' Perspectives and Food Choice Behaviors in Terms of the Environmental Impacts of Food Production Practices: Application of a Psychosocial Model

Bissonnette, Madeline Monaco; Contento, Isobel R.

doi:10.1016/s1499-4046(06)60170-x

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“…Sheep and goat meat has several health benefits in comparison to other red meat, especially if the animals are reared under extensive conditions on natural pastures like in Switzerland (zur Hausen 2012; Polidori et al 2011), which also potentially coincides with advantages with respect to environmental impacts and animal welfare (Stott et al 2005). As education is positively correlated with the awareness of these aspects associated with food consumption (Daniel et al 2011;Monaco Bissonnette and Contento 2001), households with a better educated household head tend to have a higher demand for sheep and goat meat.…”

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Determinants of sheep and goat meat consumption in Switzerland

Aepli

Finger

2013

Agric Econ

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In this study, we estimated the influence of different meat prices, socio-demographic and geographic variables on sheep and goat meat demand using the Swiss household expenditure survey from 2000 to 2005, a micro data set on 20,940 households resident in Switzerland. This study is motivated by the fact that sheep and goats play a major economic role especially for small farms in Swiss agriculture and contribute to conservation of landscape and biodiversity especially in the mountain regions. Considering the high share of households with zero consumption for sheep and goat meat, we estimated a Tobit-model. Missing prices are replaced by monthly, regional market prices where possible, or by quality adjusted prices based on unit values. Our results show that pork is a substitute for sheep and goat meat, whereas beef is a complementary good, and that socio-demographic variables like education or the presence of children and geographic variables are important in determining demand of sheep and goat meat.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Determinants of sheep and goat meat consumption in Switzerland

Aepli

Finger

2013

Agric Econ

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“…These results support the finding of previous literature, which indicates that females are generally more interested in environmental issues than males. [2,3,11,17,21,23] . Table 4 shows the means and SD for students' scores according to college of study.…”

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Attitudes of Sultan Qaboos University Students towards Some Environmental Problems and their Willingness to Take Action to Reduce them

Al-Rabaani¹,

Al-Mekhlafi²

2009

J. of Social Sciences

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Problem statement: Our earth suffers from many environmental problems which need to be tackled at the individual level, requiring individuals to develop those attitudes which will guide them to environmentally supportive behavior. The objectives of this study were to investigate (i) the attitudes of Sultan Qaboos University students to some environmental problems, (ii) their willingness to take action to ameliorate these problems, (iii) the effect of students' gender and college of study on their attitudes and (iiii) to examine the relationship between students' attitudes and their willingness to take action to reduce these problems. Approach: Data were collected from 317 students from five different faculties. The data were collected by using a questionnaire containing 48 items distributed over 5 dimensions: Energy, water, air pollution, waste and desertification. Validity and reliability were examined. Results: The results showed generally that the students hold positive attitudes towards the issues raised and that female students showed more positive attitudes than males. The results indicated that students' attitudes towards environmental problems did not appear to be influenced by the university faculties in which they are studying, except in the case of energy, where significant differences were observed between the attitudes of students from the faculty of Education and the faculty of Agriculture, the former showing more positive attitudes than the latter. The results showed that students were willing to take action to reduce environmental problems; this was not affected by gender or faculty. Conclusion: The findings suggested the necessity to develop students' attitudes and willingness to take responsibility to reduce these problems.

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“…Regular consumers of organic products believe that organic food is healthier and has a better quality than factory or traditionally processed food (Vindigni et al, 2002). Bissonnette and Contento (2001) find out in their study that about three-quarters of the respondents agreed that organic foods are better for the environment (73.7%) and better for their personal health (74.8%). Radman (2005) deduces that Croatian consumers consider organically grown products as very healthy and of good quality.…”

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“…In another study, rare buyers score highest (58.3%) while regular buyers score lowest (6.0%) (Tarkiainen & Sundqvist, 2005). Another research conducted with the young shows that they are not concerned about whether the food they consume is organic or not (71.8%), they attach importance to the taste (93%), price (78.7%), reliability (93.9%), healthiness (83.9%) as well as the appearance (75.3%) of the food (Bissonnette and Contento 2001). In a regular organic food consumer group, among the reasons behind their choices the most important for them is that organic foods do not contain chemicals, hormones or additives, while the reasons of taste, nutrition and price follow (Sarıkaya, 2007).…”

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confidence: 99%