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2. Effect of information on geographical origin, duration of transport and welfare condition on consumer's acceptance of lamb meat
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Caroprese, Mariangela (author), Ciliberti, Maria Giovanna (author), Marino, Rosaria (author), Sevi, Agostino (author), Albenzio, Marzia (author), Napolitano, Fabio (author), and Braghieri, Ada (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-06-16
- Published:
- UK: Nature Portfolio
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 207 Document Number: D13084
- Journal Title:
- Scientific Reports
- Journal Title Details:
- V.10, N.9754
- Notes:
- 10 pages, Animal production system and welfare conditions can influence consumers’ acceptance, as meat from animals grazing in natural pasture and labelled with information about high standards of welfare is preferred. In addition, geographical origin of food is recently considered one of the main information influencing the consumers’ acceptance. Local products are collectively associated with high quality attributes by the consumers related to shorter transport and good welfare. Lamb meat is considered local and typical food; however, it is common to find in the same market both local and imported lamb meat. The present investigation aimed at understanding the importance of information about geographical origin, transport duration, and welfare condition of lambs for consumers and their actual liking. Moreover, the quality of lamb meat from local and imported animals as affected by short or long transport was assessed. Data demonstrated that both short and long transport did not affect organoleptic quality of meat; this result was corroborated by an absence of both metabolic and immune stressors in long term transport lambs except for haptoglobin, cortisol and glucose. However, the expected and actual acceptability were affected by the information with higher scores for local lamb when information on the geographical origin, transport duration, and welfare condition was provided to the consumers.
3. Getting consumers to eat more whole-grains: the role of policy, information, and food manufacturers
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Mancino, Lisa (author), Kuchler, Fred (author), and Leibtag, Ephraim (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2008
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 137 Document Number: D11462
- Journal Title:
- Food Policy
- Journal Title Details:
- 33 : 489-496
- Notes:
- 17 pages., Online via UI electronic subscription, Case study assessing the effects of the 2005 Dietary Guidelines published jointly by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and U.S. Department of Agriculture. Findings suggested that release of the guidelines and related media attention increased availability and sales of whole-grain foods. Emphasized the key role of product reformulation, induced by competition among food suppliers.
4. Hen housing system information effects on U.S. egg demand
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ochs, Dan (author), Wolf, Christopher A. (author), Widmar, Nicole Olynk (author), Bir, Courtney (author), and Lai, John (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 136 Document Number: D11449
- Journal Title:
- Food Policy
- Journal Title Details:
- 87 : 101743
- Notes:
- 9 pages., Online via UI electronic subscription., A choice experiment was used to evaluate the U.S. public's willingness to pay for egg attributes including housing system, color, size, and certifying agency. A significant difference in willingness to pay for hen housing systems was found using video information treatments describing hen housing systems. Participants were indifferent between hen housing systems when they viewed video treatments describing hen housing systems. However, they clearly preferred the cage-free system when they viewed no video treatments. "Results point towards potential public misunderstanding of the costs and benefits associated with the "cage-free" egg label designation."
5. Willingness-to-pay for natural, organic, and conventional foods: the effects of information and meaningful labels
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- McFadden, Jonathan R. (author) and Huffman, Wallace E. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 136 Document Number: D11448
- Journal Title:
- Food Policy
- Journal Title Details:
- 68 : 214-232
- Notes:
- 19 pages., Online via UI e-subscription., Authors tested food label and information treatment effects on subjects' willingness-to-pay for organic, "natural," and conventional foods. They found large information effects, including asymmetric cross-market effects for natural and organic foods. Organic premiums increased in response to subjects' seeing the "natural" foods industry's perspective on its products.