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2. Community engagement and the promotion of sustainable diets
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ramsing, Rebecca (author), Chang, Kenjing Bryan (author), Hendrickson, Zoe Mistrale (author), Xu, Zhe (author), Friel, Madison (author), and Calves, Ellen (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-01-01
- Published:
- United States
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D12168
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and Community Development
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol 10 No 2 (2021)
- Notes:
- 25 pages, Decreasing the consumption of meat and dairy has been identified as an effective strategy for protecting the health of humans and the planet. More specifically, transitioning to diets that are lower in animal-source foods and higher in fruits, vegetables, legumes, and whole grains offers a promising opportunity to better align consumer behaviors with contemporary nutritional and ecological goals. However, given the limited understanding of how these changes in dietary behaviors can be best promoted, there is a need to explore the merits of community-based approaches to meat reduction and their capacity to advance more sustainable practices of eating at the individual, household, and community levels. To address this gap in the literature, we surveyed more than 100 American households participating in a communitywide, 12-week-long Meatless Monday challenge and tracked the changes in their knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and food choices over a nine-month period. The case study provided herein highlights a number of key findings from our evaluation. Most notably, our results demonstrate the value of community-based efforts in initiating and maintaining dietary behavior change and provide preliminary insights into the unique roles of multilevel interventions and diverse stakeholder engagement in promoting healthier, more sustainable diets.
3. Motivations for sustainable consumption: the case study of vegetables
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Gustavsen, Geir Wæhler (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-10
- Published:
- Germany: CENTMA Research
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12698
- Journal Title:
- International Journal on Food System Dynamics
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 11, N.4
- Notes:
- 12 pages, According to the World Health Organization a diet high in vegetables may reduce the risk of coronary heart diseases, stroke, and certain types of cancer. In addition, vegetables have lower carbon footprints than most other foods. The main objective in this paper is to find drivers behind vegetable consumption, with emphasis on health and environmental motivation. We used the theory of planned behavior together with direct acyclic graphs as a theoretical basis. The empirical analysis applied the graded response model and bounded beta regression with survey data from 2019. The main results show that health attitude is a stronger motivator for vegetable consumption than environmental attitudes.
4. The farmers’ dilemma: Meat, means, and morality
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Bryant, Christopher (author) and Van der Weele, Cor (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2021-12-01
- Published:
- United States: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12511
- Journal Title:
- Appetite
- Journal Title Details:
- 167
- Notes:
- 6 pages., Evidence overwhelmingly supports the view that we need to drastically reduce our consumption of animal products for reasons related to the environment and public health, while moral concerns about the treatment of animals in agriculture are becoming ever more common. As governments increasingly recognize the need to change our food production and alternative protein products become more appealing to consumers, agriculture finds itself in a unique period of transition. How do farmers respond to the changing atmosphere? We present secondary analyses of qualitative and quantitative data to highlight some of the uncertainty and ambivalence about meat production felt throughout the farming community. Survey data from France and Germany reveals that in both countries, those who work in the meat industry have significantly higher rates of meat avoidance than those who do not work in the industry. While non-meat-industry workers are more likely to cite concerns for animals or the environment, meat industry workers more often cite concerns about the healthiness or safety of the products. Concurrently, interviews with people who raise animals for a living suggest that moral concerns among farmers are growing but largely remain hidden; talking about them openly was felt as a form of betrayal. We discuss these findings in the context of the ongoing agricultural transition, observe how tension has manifested as polarization among Dutch farmers, and offer some thoughts about the role of farmers in a new world of alternative proteins.
5. Unhealthy food: food and beverage references in comedy series
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Mayrhofer, Mira (author), Naderer, Brigitte (author), and Binder, Alice (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 93 Document Number: D10855
- Journal Title:
- Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
- Notes:
- First published May 7, 2019. In press., We analyzed comedy series for food and beverage references, with particular attention to their type of presentation, along with the characteristics of actors associated with the references. Because the generally positive tone of comedy series can exert affective influence over audiences, the result that clearly unhealthy products appeared more often (food: 51.6%; beverage: 40.5%) than clearly healthy ones (food: 11.2%; beverage: 19.6%) could be especially problematic. Moreover, women (56.5%; men: 47.4%) and African American characters (62.7%; Caucasians: 51.5%; Other: 44.7%) were significantly more often associated with unhealthy foods, which could prompt stereotypes of such individuals.
6. Utilization of text mining as a big data analysis tool for food science and nutrition
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Tao, Dandan (author), Yang, Pengkun (author), and Feng, Hao (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 166 Document Number: D11679
- Journal Title:
- Comprehensive Reviews of Food Science and Food Safety
- Journal Title Details:
- 19 : 875-894
- Notes:
- 20 pages., Via online from the University of Illinois website., Authors' review provided an overview of the data sources, computational methods, and applications of text data in the food industry. Applications of text data analysis were illustrated with respect to food safety and food fraud surveillance, dietary pattern characterization, consumer-opinion mining, new-product development, food knowledge discovery, food supply-chain management, and online food systems.