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Buying higher welfare poultry products? Profiling Flemish consumers who do and do not

Filiep Vanhonacker, +1 more
- 01 Dec 2009 - 
- Vol. 88, Iss: 12, pp 2702-2711
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A welfare label emerged as an appropriate communication vehicle for consumers who engage in pro-welfare behavior and who experienced the label as a solution to lower the search costs for higher welfare products.
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This article is published in Poultry Science.The article was published on 2009-12-01 and is currently open access. It has received 83 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Welfare & Market segmentation.

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Replacement of meat by meat substitutes. A survey on person- and product-related factors in consumer acceptance

TL;DR: In order to make meat substitutes more attractive to meat consumers, it would not recommend to focus on communication of ethical arguments, but to significantly improve the sensory quality and resemblance to meat.
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Flemish consumer attitudes towards more sustainable food choices

TL;DR: This study investigates consumer opinions towards a series of food choices with a lower ecological impact, which range from well-known meat substitutes to alternatives which are more radical or innovative and that require an adaptation of food habits and cultural patterns.
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Consumers’ valuation of sustainability labels on meat

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared consumers' preferences for four types of sustainability claims related to organic meat, free range, animal welfare, and carbon footprint and found that nine in every ten Belgian consumers favor free range claims, which are also valued the most highly.
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A Systematic Review of Public Attitudes, Perceptions and Behaviours Towards Production Diseases Associated with Farm Animal Welfare

TL;DR: In this article, a systematic review of public attitudes towards farm animal welfare in modern animal production systems was conducted, with a specific focus on production diseases in intensive systems, and the results demonstrate that the public are concerned about FAW in modern production systems.
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Sustainable food consumption. Product choice or curtailment

TL;DR: It is concluded that distinguishing between behavioral strategies toward sustainable food consumption is important as consumer segments can be identified that differ both in their level ofustainable food consumption and in the type of behavior they employ.
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A Cognitive Model of the Antecedents and Consequences of Satisfaction Decisions

TL;DR: In this paper, a model is proposed which expresses consumer satisfaction as a function of expectation and expectancy disconfirmation, in turn, is believed to influence attitude change and purchase i...
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Sustainable Food Consumption: Exploring the Consumer “Attitude – Behavioral Intention” Gap

TL;DR: In this article, the impact of involvement, perceived availability, certainty, perceived consumer effectiveness, values, and social norms on consumers' attitudes and intentions towards sustainable food products is analyzed. But, behavioral patterns are not univocally consistent with attitudes.
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Can socio-demographics still play a role in profiling green consumers? A review of the evidence and an empirical investigation

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored whether socio-demographics still have a role to play in profiling green consumers and developed hypotheses concerning the relationship between six key socio-emographic variables and five valid and reliable measures of environmental consciousness.
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The Role of Perceived Consumer Effectiveness in Motivating Environmentally Conscious Behaviors

TL;DR: While perceived consumer effectiveness (PCE) has consistently been linked to socially conscious attitudes, the concept appears to have been confounded with other related constructs in the empirical literature as mentioned in this paper, which may explain why consumer effectiveness has not been consistently linked to social conscious attitudes.
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