Green Light for Climate-friendly Food Transitions? Communicating Legal Innovation Increases Consumer Support for Meat Curtailment Policies
| Autor: | João Graça, Sónia R. Cardoso, Fábio Rafael Augusto, Nádia Carvalho Nunes |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Consumption (economics)
0303 health sciences Consumer support 030309 nutrition & dietetics Natural resource economics 05 social sciences food and beverages Management Monitoring Policy and Law Environmental Science (miscellaneous) 050105 experimental psychology Plant-based diets Environmental policy 03 medical and health sciences Meat consumption Sustainable consumption 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Business |
| Zdroj: | Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP) instacron:RCAAP |
| ISSN: | 1752-4040 1752-4032 |
| Popis: | In light of increasing calls for environmental policies that reduce meat consumption and promote more plant-based diets (i.e. Meat Curtailment Policies, MCPs), this study aimed to increase knowledge on how consumers may react to these policies. Participants (N = 784) were randomly presented with a small real news piece about an actual law approval referring to a MCP, or assigned to a no-information control condition. The study measured a set of ideological and consumption variables, and support for MCPs. Participants with increased pro-environmental ideology were more positive toward MCPs, whereas participants who endorsed human supremacy beliefs, and who were more attached to meat consumption, were less supportive of MCPs. Despite these associations, reading about the law approval increased participants’ support for MCPs irrespectively of individual differences in ideology and consumption. This suggests that communicating legal innovation on the topic may be used to increase support for policies that promote more plant-based diets. info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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