Consumer Concerns About The Impacts Of Their Food
This survey found that consumers have a desire to learn more about the origins of food they consume and about the safety of these products before they make purchases.
The list of biggest consumer concerns includes:
- Food safety
- Mad cow/ e. coli
- Nutritional value of foods
- Treatment of animals
- Environmental impacts
- Human labor conditions in food industry
80% of respondents liked the idea of food labels as a source of information. % ranking potential eco-labels as first choice:
- Humane animal sourced products (30%)
- Locally grown (22%)
- Living wage (16.5%)
- U.S. grown (5.9%)
- Small scale farms or businesses (5.2%)
https://news.ucsc.edu/2005/01/629.html
ANIMALS USED FOR FOODUniversity of California, Santa Cruz, Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, USDA, UCSC, 2005 United States (Regional)
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