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    1. Consumers’ attitudes towards animal suffering: a systematic review on awareness, willingness and dietary change

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Fonseca, Rui Pedro (author) and Sanchez-Sabate, Ruben (author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2022-12
    Published:
    Switzerland: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12781
    Journal Title:
    International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
    Journal Title Details:
    Volume 19, Issue 23
    Notes:
    23pgs, Planetary and human health depend on Westerners’ ability to reduce meat consumption. Meat production degrades the environment while excessive meat intake is associated with cancer and cardiovascular disease, among others. Effective reasons and motivations are needed for consumers to change their diet. The fact that modern animal agriculture inflicts a great deal of pain on animals from their birth to their slaughter, animal welfare/suffering may drive consumers to curtail their meat consumption. This systematic review examined a total of 90 papers to ascertain consumers’ awareness of the pain animals experience in animal agriculture, as well as consumer attitudes towards meat reduction due to animal welfare. Results show that consumers have low awareness of animal agriculture. Awareness of animal agricultural practices and animal sentience is associated with increased negative attitudes towards animal suffering. Animal suffering due to farming practices, transportation, slaughter, and animal sentience are factors that may encourage a reduction in meat consumption, and even dietary change in the short term. There is also evidence that animal suffering may be a more compelling motivation for consumers’ willingness to change their diet than for health or environmental reasons. Therefore, increasing consumers’ awareness of animal suffering in meat production is paramount to contributing to reduced pressure on the environment and improved human health. © 2022 by the authors.

    2. Media Diets of vegetarians. how news consumption, social media use and communicating with one’s social environment are associated with a vegetarian diet

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Kley, Stefanie (author), Königslöw, Katharina Kleinen-von (author), and Dunker, Alicia (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2022-04-01
    Published:
    UK: Taylor & Francis
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12631
    Journal Title:
    Environmental Communication
    Notes:
    17 pages, Traditionally, dietary choices are formed through socialization, social norms and the social environment, while news media seemed to have little impact on people’s diets. This article explores whether today’s news media consumption and in particular consuming and sharing information about food on social media are associated with following a vegetarian or vegan diet. The data come from a tailor-made survey carried out in Hamburg, Germany, in 2018 (N = 1,214). Making use of probit regression with multiple equations, we analyse the associations between vegetarianism and individual news consumption, having vegetarians in the social environment, and communicating about food, controlling for individual and family characteristics. We find that both regular news consumption via social media and having vegetarian friends or family members is associated with pursuing a vegetarian diet. Moreover, news consumption via social media comes with increased communication about food, suggesting high relevance of social media for pursuing a vegetarian diet.