Household Behavior with Respect to Meat Consumption: Differences between Households with and without Children
| Autor: | Danielle Borra, Valentina Maria Merlino, Stefano Massaglia, Tibor Verduna |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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0301 basic medicine
media_common.quotation_subject consumer behavior 03 medical and health sciences Agricultural science 0404 agricultural biotechnology Quality (business) Consumer behaviour media_common Consumption (economics) Best-Worst analysis lcsh:Veterinary medicine 030109 nutrition & dietetics General Veterinary Consumer analysis household composition meat attributes food and beverages 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences 040401 food science Purchasing Product (business) Red meat lcsh:SF600-1100 Fish Business |
| Zdroj: | Veterinary Sciences; Volume 4; Issue 4; Pages: 53 Veterinary Sciences, Vol 4, Iss 4, p 53 (2017) |
| ISSN: | 2306-7381 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/vetsci4040053 |
| Popis: | Meat consumers around the world are increasingly paying attention to product quality and safety, and are starting to reduce their meat consumption, especially with regard to red meat. This trend is prevalent in households with children who prefer health-certified meat products. Our study compares meat consumption habits in households with and without children or adolescences (0–18 years). A structured questionnaire was distributed to 401 retail purchasers at 12 different points of sales of meat in the Piedmont region in northwest Italy. Socio-demographic variables and quantitative-qualitative meat consumption habits of retail purchasers were investigated. One part of the questionnaire analyzed the relative importance of 12 meat choice purchasing attributes by employing the Best-Worst scaling methodology, a type of choice experiment. Our research found that households without children (subset B) have higher weekly meat consumption habits than those with children (subset A). Alternatively, the households with children (subset A) have a diet characterized by a greater variety of protein sources, such as legumes and fish. Both of the considered subsets preferred trusted butchers for meat buying, with supermarkets as a second choice. However, only consumers of subset A bought meat from farm butchers. Our team performed a consumer analysis to identify meat consumption patterns in the two considered subsets. Simultaneously, a Best-Worst analysis evidenced several choice attributes with different relevance for the two investigated samples segmentation in three clusters of purchase. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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