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    1. Food scandals, media exposure, and citizens' safety concerns: a multilevel analysis across Chinese cities

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Liu, Peng (author) and Ma, Liang (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2018
    Published:
    China
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 137 Document Number: D11474
    Journal Title:
    Food Policy
    Journal Title Details:
    63 : 102-111
    Notes:
    22 pages., Online via UI electronic subscription, Researchers combined recent national survey data and media reports to quantitatively examine the effects of food scandals and media exposure on food safety risk. Findings suggesed hat media reported food scandals are not significantly related to public concern about food safety risk, suggesting that food risk perceptions may be nationwide rather than region specific. Findings also suggested that more educated citizens with more media exposure were more concerned about food safety risk.

    2. Measuring the consumer benefits of improving farm animal welfare to inform welfare labeling

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    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.