Impacts of Animal Well‐Being and Welfare Media on Meat Demand

Tonsor, Glynn T.; Olynk, Nicole J.

doi:10.1111/j.1477-9552.2010.00266.x

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“…Public debate on animal welfare surfaces on a regular basis. As shown by Tonsor and Olynk (2011), non-vegetarians decrease consumption of meat proportional with exposure to awareness campaigns of animal welfare through public media. The effects were rather small and pertained mostly to poultry and pork, not to beef, but at the same time the number of publications on animal welfare issues in livestock meat production rose gradually during the 1982-2008 observation period.…”

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“…However, how this will translate into practice, and the speed at which change will take place, is difficult to predict given that rapid cultural changes observed in public attitudes (Thompson et al 2011). The increasing role of social media campaigns will also likely play a role in the social acceptability of food animal production systems (Tonsor and Olynk 2011).…”

Section: Defining Farm Animal Welfarementioning

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The Ticking Clock: Addressing Farm Animal Welfare in Emerging Countries

Keyserlingk

Hötzel

2014

J Agric Environ Ethics

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Over the last decade many emerging economies, and in particular Brazil, have established themselves as major players in global food animal production. Within these countries much of the increase in food animal production has been achieved by the adoption of intensive housing systems similar to those found in most industrialized countries. However, it is now well established that many of these systems are associated with numerous welfare problems, particularly with respect to restriction of movement. Previous work has shown that people living in industrialized' countries broadly support farm animal welfare reform, and that similar criticisms may be voiced from citizens living in developing countries as they become more aware of confinement housing and potentially contentious husbandry practices. Given the developments that have taken place in other countries, there are lessons that could be learned and applied by emerging economies that would undoubtedly ease or prevent the challenges observed in other countries. Thus, we briefly describe the vehicles used by different countries when addressing animal welfare that may provide insights into identifying possible challenges and potential solutions for Brazil and other emerging economies. Where available we review the associated science and identify gaps where more research is needed. We conclude by providing a possible roadmap on how farm animal welfare reform may be addressed in emerging countries. Solutions will need to be tailored, culturally relevant, and science must play a key role in supporting animal welfare reform in the emerging countries.

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“…As a result, consumers' preference structures and the factors that influence their decision-making have been the subject of various empirical studies, especially those concerning food purchase choice. In their study, Tonsor and Olynk (2011) summarise a body of literature focused on preference and demand shifters regarding various food products. Of particular attention to this area of study are the effects of information on consumer demand.…”

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“…The role of health and diet media information, productrecall news, generic advertising, precommitted demand and structural change has been studied using a wide variety of empirical methodologies (Tonsor and Olynk 2011). Because the majority of U.S. consumers receive a substantial amount of food product information through the popular press and television, a number of studies have incorporated the effects of media as potential demand shifters (see Piggott et al 1996;Piggot and Marsh 2004;Tonsor and Olynk 2011). To date, most of the studies on this subject rely on revealed time-series data to measure the effects of news and media information on consumer demand.…”

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Effects of media headlines on consumer preferences for food safety, quality and environmental attributes

Ortega

Wang

Widmar

2014

Aust J Agric Resour Econ

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In recent years, Asia has emerged as an important supplier of food to Western countries. In this study, we focus on shrimp, a major aquaculture commodity, to evaluate consumer willingness-to-pay (WTP) for enhanced food safety, use of antibiotics and eco-friendly practices used in producing shrimp in the presence of country-of-origin labelling. Specifically, this research assesses the effects of news headlines regarding product safety, as information shocks on U.S. consumer demand. Consumers were found to have a mean willingness-to-pay of $7.81 per pound of shrimp with an enhanced safety characteristic from the United States, $0.94 for the same type of shrimp from China and $2.43 for similar shrimp from Thailand. Consumers had a WTP for the absence of antibiotics in the production of U.S. shrimp of $7.31 and were only willing to pay for an eco-friendly attribute on domestically produced shrimp. Media headlines were found to have a statistically significant effect on consumer preferences and WTP for product characteristics. Food policy and international agribusiness implications of our findings are discussed.

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Impacts of Animal Well‐Being and Welfare Media on Meat Demand

Cited by 98 publications

References 46 publications

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The Ticking Clock: Addressing Farm Animal Welfare in Emerging Countries

Effects of media headlines on consumer preferences for food safety, quality and environmental attributes

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