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2. Measuring the consumer benefits of improving farm animal welfare to inform welfare labeling
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kehlbacher, A. (author), Bennett, R. (author), and Balcombe, K. (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2012-12
- Published:
- USA: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 5 Document Number: D10196
- Journal Title:
- Food Policy
- Journal Title Details:
- 37(6) : 627-633
- Notes:
- 7 pages., Via online journal., Policy makers in the European Union are envisioning the introduction of a community farm animal welfare label which would allow consumers to align their consumption habits with their farm animal welfare preferences. For welfare labeling to be viable the market for livestock products produced to higher welfare standards has to be sufficiently segmented with consumers having sufficiently distinct and behaviourally consistent preferences. The present study investigates consumers’ preferences for meat produced to different welfare standards using a hypothetical welfare score. Data is obtained from a contingent valuation study carried out in Britain. The ordered prohbit model was estimated using Bayesian inference to obtain mean willingness to pay. We find decreasing marginal WTP as animal welfare levels increase and that people’s preferences for different levels of farm animal welfare are sufficiently differentiated making the introduction of a la belling scheme in the form of a certified rating system appear feasible.