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Consumer Preferences Regarding Country of Origin for Multiple Meat Products

Fraser, Iain M (2016) Consumer Preferences Regarding Country of Origin for Multiple Meat Products. Food Policy, 64 (Oct). pp. 49-62. ISSN 0306-9192. (doi:10.1016/j.foodpol.2016.09.008) (KAR id:57742)

Abstract

Despite the growing use of country of origin (CoO) information and labels on food, the extent to which consumers really value this information is unclear. In an effort to understand this issue we present results of a hypothetical discrete choice experiment examining consumer willingness-to-pay for CoO information about meat and meat products. Our results reveal that CoO information is positively valued for all the food products we consider. However, it is relatively less important compared to other food attributes for a large number of products such as bacon, pizza and ready meals. Our results suggest that consumers do not value very highly CoO information for many of the food products examined. Therefore, if the associated costs of mandatory CoO implementation are sufficiently high this raises questions about the inclusion of this information on food labels.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2016.09.008
Projects: Consumer Preferences Regarding Country of Origin Labelling of Meat
Uncontrolled keywords: Country of origin; mandatory; voluntary; discrete choice experiment
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Economics
Funders: [37325] UNSPECIFIED
Depositing User: Iain Fraser
Date Deposited: 06 Oct 2016 12:58 UTC
Last Modified: 04 Mar 2024 15:45 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/57742 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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