This study examines the roles of cholesterol information and advertising in explaining consumption trends for fats and oils, focusing on butter. Results suggest increased consumer awareness of the health effects of blood cholesterol has contributed to the secular decline in butter consumption in Canada. Although consumers' responses to negative information appear to outweigh their responses to positive information, the industry advertising campaign launched in 1978 by the Dairy Bureau of Canada has had a positive effect on butter demand.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C35866
Notes:
Pages 309-314 in Ronald E. Rice and Charles K. Atkin (eds.), Public communication campaigns, Third Edition, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, California. 428 pages.
Ellis, Stu (author) and University of Illinois Extension.
Format:
News release
Publication Date:
2007-07-26
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 160 Document Number: C26275
Notes:
Via "Farm Gate" web site. 1 page., Researchers find "the impacts of advertising and food safety effects to be economically small compared with price and expenditure effects." Also, the economists "believe that generic pork advertising appears to help demand for poultry more than pork."
