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2. Consumer response to negative information on meat consumption in Germany
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Cordts, Anette (author), Nitzko, Sina (author), and Spiller, Achim (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2014
- Published:
- Germany
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 131 Document Number: D11312
- Journal Title:
- International Food and Agribusiness Management Review
- Journal Title Details:
- 17 Special Issue A : 83-106
- Notes:
- 690 German survey recipients were given one of four different fictitious "newspaper articles" describing negative effects of meat consumption - either in terms of adverse effects on human health, on climate change, on animal welfare or on personal image. Findings showed that animal welfare and health arguments had the strongest effects at reducing meat consumption in both men and women.
3. The climate casino: risk, uncertainty, and economics for a warming world
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Nordhaus, William D. (author)
- Format:
- Book
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- International: Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D07328
- Notes:
- 378 pages.
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.