Beyond the knowledge deficit: recent research into lay and expert attitudes to food risks

Hansen, Janus; Holm, Lotte; Frewer, Lynn J.; Robinson, Paul; Sandøe, Peter

doi:10.1016/s0195-6663(03)00079-5

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“…d 9 dSee Wright Mills (1940). d 10 dSee, for example, Hilgartner (1990) and Hansen et al (2003), and, for the Italian context, the works of Bucchi and Neresini Neresini, 2002, 2004 ;Bucchi, 2006 ;Neresini, 2006). d 11 dThis is what has been actually happening for the High Speed Train (TAV) in the Val di Susa area, especially over the last six years.…”

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Among ‘Bananas’ and ‘Backyards’: A Statistical Analysis of the Effect of Risk and Scientific Literacy on the Attitude towards a Waste Co-incinerator in Italy

Tipaldo¹

2011

International Review of Social Research

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This paper, based on a social impact research and the possible NIMBY-effect of the Turin, Italy, co-incinerator, deals with risk perception, scientific literacy and their influence on the attitude towards high-tech and controversial industrial plants. The paper argues that plant and infrastructure settlements having a substantial ecological impact represent a highly sophisticated and diverse social phenomenon in which risk plays an important but not unique role. Taking into account some important concomitant variables (such as trust, mass media use, political culture in decision-making processes), it is first of all shown that risk is not a mono-dimensional concept, as assumed by the psychometric tradition, and that two dimensions of the concept are to be found. The collective dimension has a positive monotonic association with a critical attitude towards the co-incinerator, whereas the individual dimension has an unexpectedly negative correlation, which will be explained in further detail. It also demonstrates that scientific literacy has no statistical significance for attitude in our model, confirming the well-known limits of the so called 'knowledge deficit' model.

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Among ‘Bananas’ and ‘Backyards’: A Statistical Analysis of the Effect of Risk and Scientific Literacy on the Attitude towards a Waste Co-incinerator in Italy

Tipaldo¹

2011

International Review of Social Research

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“…Values form a foundational platform through which an individual views the world. This is why people's values about animal welfare are relatively impervious, regardless of the level of information that they might have about a specific practice (see Hansen et al, 2003). It also explains why educational efforts towards the goal of, say, heading off criticisms about husbandry practices in the livestock industries often fall short: they fail to address the deeply held values that people hold around animal care.…”

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Societal views and animal welfare science: understanding why the modified cage may fail and other stories

Weary

Ventura

Keyserlingk

2016

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The innovations developed by scientists working on animal welfare are often not adopted in practice. In this paper, we argue that one important reason for this failure is that the solutions proposed do not adequately address the societal concerns that motivated the original research. Some solutions also fail because they do not adequately address perceived constraints within the industry. Using examples from our own recent work, we show how research methods from the social sciences can address both of these limitations. For example, those who persist in tail-docking cattle (despite an abundance of evidence showing that the practice has no benefits) often justify their position by citing concern for cow cleanliness. This result informs the nature of new extension efforts directed at farmers that continue to tail dock, suggesting that these efforts will be more effective if they focus on providing producers with methods (of proven efficacy) for keeping cows clean. Work on pain mitigation for dehorning shows that some participants reluctant to provide pain relief believe that the pain from this procedure is short lasting and has little impact on the calf. This result informs the direction of new biological research efforts to understand both the magnitude and duration of any suffering that result from this type of procedure. These, and other examples, illustrate how social science methodologies can document the shared and divergent values of different stakeholders (to ensure that proposed solutions align with mainstream values), beliefs regarding the available evidence (to help target new scientific research that meets the perceived gaps), and barriers in implementing changes (to ease adoption of ideas by addressing these barriers).

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“…Another prerequisite for trust is that the health promotion message/campaign is correct and from reputable organisations (15) . A level of trust in the credibility of the message and in the organisation promoting the message is required before individuals contemplate changing their behaviour appropriately (12,16,17) ; as Hansen et al (18) suggested, if people do not 'trust the messenger, they will not trust the message' (p. 15). Studies from Europe suggest that trust in the media, farmers, politicians and the food industry has diminished in the face of well-publicised food scares, with consumers more likely to trust information about healthy eating received from medical practitioners and consumer groups than information received through the media (19,20) .…”

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Fruit and vegetable consumption – the influence of aspects associated with trust in food and safety and quality of food

Taylor

Coveney

Ward

et al. 2011

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective: To profile adults who eat less than the recommended servings of fruit and vegetables per day. Design: Australia-wide population telephone survey on a random sample of the Australian population, with results analysed by univariate and multivariate models. Setting: Australia. Subjects: One thousand one hundred and eight interviews, respondents' (49?3 % males) mean age was 45?12 (SD 17?63) years. Results: Overall 54?8 % and 10?7 % were eating the recommended number of servings of fruit and vegetables. Variables included in the multivariate model indicating low fruit consumption included gender, age, employment, education and those who were less likely to consider the safety and quality of food as important. In regard to low vegetable consumption, people who were more likely to do the food shopping only 'some of the time' and have a high level of trust in groups of people such as immediate family, neighbours, doctors and different levels of government were included in the final model. They were also less likely to neither consider the safety and quality of food as important nor trust organisations/institutions such as the press, television and politicians. In the final model depicting both low fruit and low vegetable servings, sex, age and a low level of importance with regard to safety and quality of food were included. Conclusion: To increase fruit and vegetable consumption, research into a broad range of determinants associated with behaviours should be coupled with a deeper understanding of the process associated with changing behaviours. While levels of trust are related to behaviour change, knowledge and attitudes about aspects associated with safety and quality of food are also of importance.

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Beyond the knowledge deficit: recent research into lay and expert attitudes to food risks

Cited by 446 publications

References 36 publications

Among ‘Bananas’ and ‘Backyards’: A Statistical Analysis of the Effect of Risk and Scientific Literacy on the Attitude towards a Waste Co-incinerator in Italy

Among ‘Bananas’ and ‘Backyards’: A Statistical Analysis of the Effect of Risk and Scientific Literacy on the Attitude towards a Waste Co-incinerator in Italy

Societal views and animal welfare science: understanding why the modified cage may fail and other stories

Fruit and vegetable consumption – the influence of aspects associated with trust in food and safety and quality of food

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