Determinants of Consumer Attitudes and Purchase Intentions With Regard to Genetically Modified Food – Results of a Cross-National Survey

Comparing Open‐Ended Choice Experiments and Experimental Auctions: An Application to Golden Rice

“…Hossain and Onyango (2004) find that consumers' acceptance of GM foods is driven primarily by their perceptions of risk, benefit, and safety of the technology. Bredahl (2001) finds that consumers do not distinguish between risks and benefits of the technology itself and risks and benefits of the resulting products. Because consumers generally have little firsthand experience with GM foods, they are using attitudes toward the technology to form opinions about GM food products.…”

Beliefs Associated with Food Production Methods

“…However, as the comparison of the two Eurobarometer studies in 1996 and 1999 shows, these differences are not stable over the time. Bredahl (1999) concluded that the strong links between attitudes towards genetic modification in food production and higher order attitudes and knowledge domains suggest that attitudes towards GM foods have been established, despite their lack of basis in actual product experience. Likewise, the strong relation of product-specific attitudes to overall attitudes towards genetic modification in food production suggests that at present consumers tend to reject the technology overall rather than to consider products on a case-by-case basis.…”

“…However many authors of recent studies are sceptical about the possibilities to increase the consumers´ acceptance of GM food by information and education of the consumer (Chess, 1998, Scholderer, 1998, Gath and von Alvensleben, 1998, Bredahl, 1999, Frewer et al, 2000. According to Hampel and Renn, 1998, more knowledge of the scientific basis of the application of modern biotechnology in the food production does not lead to a higher acceptance of GM food, but to a more pronounced judgement which may be either more positive or more negative.…”

Understanding public responses to genetic engineering through exploring intentions to purchase a hypothetical functional food derived from genetically modified dairy cattle

“…The commercial success of food and medicines derived from genetically modified organisms will ultimately depend on being market-led rather than science-driven (Frewer 1998). Economic returns from any novel product are dependent upon how it is perceived and on its marketing (Bredahl 2001). Therefore, it is important to understand the likely response of the market, or consumers' intention to purchase products developed with the aid of genetic engineering.…”