Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08699
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Pages 76-85 in Gordon Wilson, Pamela Furniss and Richard Kimbowa (eds.), Environment, development and sustainability: perspectives and cases from around the world. Oxford University Press, Oxford, England. 290 pages.
Colombia: United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, Participation Programme
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 135 Document Number: C20632
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Burton Swanson Collection, 226 pages, Partcipation, Report no. 86.7, Translated from the original Spanish text "Estado y Ejido en Mexico : el caso del Credito Rural en La Laguna"
7 pages., via online journal., The aim of this work is to explore the relation between morality and diet choice by investigating how animal and
human welfare attitudes and donation behaviors can predict a meat eating versus flexitarian versus vegetarian
diet. The results of a survey study (N=299) show that animal health concerns (measured by the Animal
Attitude Scale) can predict diet choice. Vegetarians are most concerned, while full-time meat eaters are least
concerned, and the contrast between flexitarians and vegetarians is greater than the contrast between
flexitarians and full-time meat eaters.
With regards to human welfare (measured by the Moral Foundations Questionnaire), results show that attitudes
towards human suffering set flexitarians apart from vegetarians and attitudes towards authority and respect
distinguish between flexitarians and meat eaters. To conclude, results show that vegetarians donate more
often to animal oriented charities than flexitarians and meat eaters, while no differences between the three
diet groups occur for donations to human oriented charities.
