The Impact of Animal Welfare and Environmental Information on the Choice of Organic Fish: An Empirical Investigation of German Trout Consumers

Ankamah‐Yeboah, Isaac; Jacobsen, Jette Bredahl; Olsen, Søren Bøye; Nielsen, Max; Nielsen, Rasmus

doi:10.1086/705235

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“…Concerning the appearance (freshness, presentation, etc), Almendarez-Hernández et al (2017), Can et al (2015), Hall and Amberg (2013), Kumar et al (2008) and Yousuf et al (2019) found similar results for fresh products, with higher consumer consumption rates than other presentations. Other studies have stated that consumers are willing to pay more for fresh seafood presentations than for other frozen presentations (Ankamah-Yeboah et al, 2019Bronnmann and Asche, 2017;Davidson et al, 2012), while specifically for farmed salmon, consumers are willing to pay more for redder colour options, even after knowing that the red colour is artificially added (Alfnes et al, 2006;Olesen et al, 2010Olesen et al, , 2006Steine et al, 2005). Moreover, other studies have found that fillet presentation is preferred over whole fish (Ankamah-Yeboah et al, 2019 and steak (Thong et al, 2015) presentations.…”

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“…In addition, according to the literature, the origin of the product is also an important determinant for consumers' decisions on seafood, with consumers having a higher willingness to pay for domestic or local products than for imported products (Ankamah-Yeboah et al, 2019Ariji, 2010;Davidson et al, 2012;Fernández-Polanco et al, 2013;Hinkes and Schulze-Ehlers, 2018;Lim et al, 2018;Mauracher et al, 2013;Rudd et al, 2011;Stefani et al, 2012;Thong et al, 2015;Uchida et al, 2014;van Osch et al, 2019van Osch et al, , 2017Witkin et al, 2015).…”

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Determinants of fishery and aquaculture products consumption at home in the EU28

Cantillo

Martı́n

Román

2021

Food Quality and Preference

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The European Union (EU) is the world's largest market for fishery and aquaculture products (FAPs) in nominal terms. Given the importance of these products, EU authorities and policy-makers are continuously monitoring consumer preferences and attitudes, analysing whether or not the implementation of EU policies and regulations improves the market conditions. For example, the Eurobarometer (European Union, 2018a) surveyed 27,732 EU residents including a specific module to analyse the fishery and aquaculture EU market. In this study, the dataset is used to estimate Ordered Probit models using effects coding and their marginal effects to identify the main determinants of the frequency of FAPs at-home consumption. Results indicate that the highest probability to consume more frequently FAPs is related to considering that one of the main reasons for buying or eating fishery and aquaculture products is because they are healthy, while the highest probability to consume less frequently FAPs is related to consumers who do not understand at all the information accompanying the products. Similarly, other important reasons for consuming FAPs more frequently are their good taste and low relative price. Also, results indicate a higher frequency of consumption of FAPs for those consumers who are over 55 years of age, are wealthy, have a wild product preference, live in a household of 3 persons or more and are very satisfied with their lives. To our best knowledge, there is not a similar approach in the current literature that considers such an extensive sample which is representative of all the countries that conform the EU28. Results provide valuable information especially for producers and authorities in terms of marketing and policy analysis.

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Determinants of fishery and aquaculture products consumption at home in the EU28

Cantillo

Martı́n

Román

2021

Food Quality and Preference

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“…The freshness of the product is important as sometimes it is associated with its quality [ 6 ]. In the literature, several studies have shown a general preference and greater willingness to pay for fresh products over other types of presentations [ 65 , 66 , 67 , 68 , 69 , 70 ]. A study found that freshness was the most important attribute for farmed seabream consumption in Portugal [ 62 ], while another study in Europe found that one of the most important reasons for buying local and European products was its greater freshness [ 71 ].…”

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A Best–Worst Measure of Attitudes toward Buying Seabream and Seabass Products: An Application to the Island of Gran Canaria

Cantillo

Martı́n

Román

2021

Foods

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Attitudes are important key drivers that affect consumers’ seafood consumption. The present investigation used a best–worst scaling approach to measure the level of importance and satisfaction of consumers’ attitudes towards the purchase of seabream and seabass in Gran Canaria (Spain). The investigation also compared the results of the best–worst scaling (BWS) approach with those of the traditional Likert-scale method and offers a different perspective of the results using an Importance–Satisfaction Analysis (ISA). The results indicate that the most important attributes concerned the hygiene and safety of the product, the health benefits, the freshness, the taste and the nutrients. At the same time, these attributes were ranked as those which satisfied consumers the most. However, some of the results obtained from the methodologies differed. The results suggest that, in the Likert-scale task, respondents might be overstating the importance and satisfaction of the attributes; while in the BWS, consumers were forced to evaluate a trade-off in the selection of the best and worst attributes in each scenario, so the task impeded, in principle, to define every attribute as very important and providing a high satisfaction. As a result, we consider that BWS offers more reliable and clearer results than traditional Likert-scale experiments.

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“…In the literature, several studies have studied the possible acceptance of animal welfare labels and claims [24,25,32,33]. In Norway, two studies identified a preference and higher willingness to pay (WTP) for animal welfare-labeled salmon (Freedom Food salmon) compared to conventional salmon with the same color [24,25].…”

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A Hybrid Fuzzy TOPSIS Method to Analyze the Coverage of a Hypothetical EU Ecolabel for Fishery and Aquaculture Products (FAPs)

2020

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This study presents a hybrid fuzzy technique for order preference by similarity of the ideal solution (TOPSIS) method (FTOPSIS) to analyze the coverage of a hypothetical EU ecolabel for fishery and aquaculture products (FAPs) by integrating a synthetic indicator to determine the level of acceptance for the inclusion of different types of information apart from environmental issues, considering different stakeholders and other segments of analysis. Data were obtained from a public consultation of the EU on “ecolabels for FAPs”. The results indicate that ecolabels should not only include environmental issues but also other types of information, with social and ethical issues being the most relevant, followed by animal welfare issues, health and safety issues and food quality issues. The findings also show that consumers, producers and stakeholders who are more interventionist and support the fact that public bodies and governments should be involved in the control of eco-labeling are more accepting of including additional information apart from environmental issues. Synthetic indicators (SIs) have also been found to be mostly inelastic, except for the owners of ecolabels on social and ethical issues. The implications of the future implementation of the EU ecolabel for FAPs are discussed based on the findings.

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The Impact of Animal Welfare and Environmental Information on the Choice of Organic Fish: An Empirical Investigation of German Trout Consumers

Cited by 47 publications

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Determinants of fishery and aquaculture products consumption at home in the EU28

Determinants of fishery and aquaculture products consumption at home in the EU28

A Best–Worst Measure of Attitudes toward Buying Seabream and Seabass Products: An Application to the Island of Gran Canaria

A Hybrid Fuzzy TOPSIS Method to Analyze the Coverage of a Hypothetical EU Ecolabel for Fishery and Aquaculture Products (FAPs)

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