Willingness to pay for pST‐treated pork

Elnagheeb, Abdelmoneim H.; Florkowski, Wojciech J.; Huang, Chung-Liang; Halbrendt, Catherine

doi:10.1111/j.1574-0862.1992.tb00230.x

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“…Porcine Somatotropin is a similar substance chemically yet consumers have not expressed the same levels of concern about its use in pork production. ( 10 )…”

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Consumer Risk Perceptions Toward Agricultural Biotechnology, Self‐Protection, and Food Demand: The Case of Milk in the United States

Zepeda¹,

Douthitt²,

You³

2003

Risk Analysis

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This study is an econometric systems approach to modeling the factors and linkages affecting risk perceptions toward agricultural biotechnology, self-protection actions, and food demand. This model is applied to milk in the United States, but it can be adapted to other products as well as other categories of risk perceptions. The contribution of this formulation is the ability to examine how explanatory factors influence risk perceptions and whether they translate into behavior and ultimately what impact this has on aggregate markets. Hadden's outrage factors on heightening risk perceptions are among the factors examined. In particular, the article examines the role of labeling as a means of permitting informed consent to mitigate outrage factors. The effects of attitudinal, economic, and demographic factors on risk perceptions are also explored, as well as the linkage between risk perceptions, consumer behavior, and food demand. Because risk perceptions and self-protection actions are categorical variables and demand is a continuous variable, the model is estimated as a two-stage mixed system with a covariance correction procedure suggested by Amemiya. The findings indicate that it is the availability of labeling, not the price difference, between that labeled milk and milk produced with recombinant bovine Somatotropin (rbST) that significantly affects consumer's selection of rbST-free milk. The results indicate that greater availability of labeled milk would not only significantly increase the proportion of consumers who purchased labeled milk, its availability would also reduce the perception of risk associated with rbST, whether consumers purchase it or not. In other words, availability of rbST-free milk translates into lower risk perceptions toward milk produced with rbST.

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“…Porcine Somatotropin is a similar substance chemically yet consumers have not expressed the same levels of concern about its use in pork production. ( 10 )…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Consumer Risk Perceptions Toward Agricultural Biotechnology, Self‐Protection, and Food Demand: The Case of Milk in the United States

Zepeda¹,

Douthitt²,

You³

2003

Risk Analysis

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“…Controlling for selection bias assures that estimated model parameters will not be inconsistent. Because of space limitations and the tedious mathematics involved in the exposition of this model, we refer the interested reader to either formal theoretical expositions (Greene 1997;Maddala 1983) or published applications (Elnagheeb et al 1992).…”

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Factors Influencing the Integration of Alternative Farm Enterprises Into the Agro‐Food System*

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Financial stress and general crisis in European agriculture recently have generated a widespread interest in alternative paths of farm business development and structural adjustment. One of the options suggested by policy makers and adopted by farmers was the development of alternative farm enterprises (AFEs), in which farmers recombine resources on the farm and produce a new mix of products and services in order to supplement their incomes. In the present paper we examine the factors influencing the development of AFEs. According to empirical evidence from Etolia‐Akarnania, a prefecture in western Greece that merits “less favored area” status, AFE adoption is influenced by the amount of family labor, the ratio of hired to family labor, the presence of tobacco as a main enterprise, the proximity of the farm to grade A roads, and the farmers' age. Education, management experience demonstrated by the farm manager, physical size of the farm, enterprise specialization, the use of grants, and farm location are the main factors responsible for the farmers' integration into the agro‐food system.

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Willingness to Pay for Non‐biotech Foods in the U.S. and U.K.

Moon¹,

Balasubramanian²

2003

Journal of Consumer Affairs

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This study uses closed‐ended and payment card formats to elicit willingness to pay for breakfast cereals made from non‐biotech ingredients. U.S. consumers were willing to pay a 10%∼12% premium to avoid biotech breakfast cereals, whereas U.K. consumers were willing to pay a 19%∼35% premium. Risk perceptions about agrobiotechnology proved to be an important factor shaping willingness to pay a premium for non‐biotech breakfast cereals. If consumers perceived risks to human health or environments from the use of biotechnology in crop/food production, or affiliated biotech foods unfavorably with morality or multinational corporations, they were more likely to pay a premium. Conversely, if consumers associated agrobiotechnology with various benefits (i.e., reduction in chemical use in crop production, mitigation of world food shortages, and improved nutritional content), they were less likely to pay a premium.

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Willingness to pay for pST‐treated pork

Cited by 3 publications

References 6 publications

Consumer Risk Perceptions Toward Agricultural Biotechnology, Self‐Protection, and Food Demand: The Case of Milk in the United States

Consumer Risk Perceptions Toward Agricultural Biotechnology, Self‐Protection, and Food Demand: The Case of Milk in the United States

Factors Influencing the Integration of Alternative Farm Enterprises Into the Agro‐Food System*

Willingness to Pay for Non‐biotech Foods in the U.S. and U.K.

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