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Consumer Concerns About The Impacts Of Their Food

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Press release which describes a UCSC study about influences over consumer purchasing behavior.

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:

  1. Humane animal sourced products (30%)
  2. Locally grown (22%)
  3. Living wage (16.5%)
  4. U.S. grown (5.9%)
  5. Small scale farms or businesses (5.2%)
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https://news.ucsc.edu/2005/01/629.html
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Citations:

University of California, Santa Cruz, Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, USDA, UCSC, 2005 United States (Regional)

Tags:

Animals Used for Food Attitudes English Environment Factory Farming Human Health “Humane” Farming

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