December 2020


This list includes all studies we know of published in the respective month that are:

  • Empirical (original, meta-analysis, or review of empirical studies), and

  • about advocating for farmed animals (rather than, for example, the welfare of farmed animals themselves) or,

  • provide evidence from basic empirical research that may be of interest to farmed animal advocates.

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Please send any suggestions for this list to manja.gartner@animalcharityevaluators.org.

Diet change & Animal-free foods

Banovic, M., & Sveinsdóttir, K. (2021). Importance of being analogue: Female attitudes towards meat analogue containing rapeseed protein. Food Control, 123, 107833. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodcont.2020.107833

Danny, J., & Yoon, S. (2020). Guilt of the Meat‐Eating Consumer: When Animal Anthropomorphism leads to Healthy Meat Dish Choices. Journal of Consumer Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcpy.1215

Grasso, S., & Jaworska, S. (2020). Part Meat and Part Plant: Are Hybrid Meat Products Fad or Future? Foods, 9(12), 1888. https://doi.org/10.3390/foods9121888

Kopainsky, B., Frehner, A., & Müller, A. (2020). Sustainable and healthy diets: Synergies and trade‐offs in Switzerland. Systems Research and Behavioral Science. https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.2761

Lacroix, Karine, and Robert Gifford. 2020. “Targeting Interventions to Distinct Meat-Eating Groups Reduces Meat Consumption.” Food Quality and Preference 86 (December): 103997. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2020.103997.

Onwezen, M. C., Bouwman, E. P., Reinders, M. J., & Dagevos, H. (2021). A systematic review on consumer acceptance of alternative proteins: Pulses, algae, insects, plant-based meat alternatives, and cultured meat. Appetite, 159, 105058. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2020.105058

Paslakis, Georgios, Candice Richardson, Mariel Nöhre, Elmar Brähler, Christina Holzapfel, Anja Hilbert, and Martina de Zwaan. 2020. “Prevalence and Psychopathology of Vegetarians and Vegans – Results from a Representative Survey in Germany.” Scientific Reports 10 (1): 6840. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-63910-y.

Profeta, A.; Baune, M.; Smetana, S.; Broucke, K.; Van Royen, G.; Weiß, J.; Heinz, V.; Terjung, N. Consumer Preferences for Meathybrids - Empirical findings from Belgium. Preprints 2020, 2020120325 (doi: 10.20944/preprints202012.0325.v1).

Social change

Almeida, A., & García Fernández, B. (2020). Attitudes towards animal welfare in Portuguese students from the 6th and the 9th year of schooling: implications for environmental education. Environmental Education Research, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2020.1858028


Animal Advocacy Careers (2020). Effective animal advocacy bottlenecks surveys. Link to study.


Hartman, T. K., Marshall, M., Stocks, T. V. A., McKay, R., Bennett, K. M., Professor, Butter, S., … Bentall, R. (2020, December 18). Different conspiracy theories have different psychological and social determinants: Comparison of three theories about the origins of the COVID-19 virus in a representative sample of the UK population. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/mz5sw

Animal welfare campaigns

Cerqueira, M. & Billington, T. (2020). Fish Welfare Improvements in Aquaculture. Version 1, November 2020. By Fish Welfare Initiative.

Cerqueira, M., King-Nobles, H., Kirsch, J.-J. & Raghavan, K. (2020). Fish Welfare Scoping Report: India. By Fish Welfare Initiative.

Gibson, I., Yip Fai, T. & Cerqueira, M. (2020). Fish Welfare Scoping Report: China. Fish Welfare Initiative.

Kirsch, J.-J. & Cerqueira, M. (2020). Aquaculture in Asian Countries. By Fish Welfare Initiative.

Wagas, E.C., King-Nobles, H. & Cerqueira, M. (2020). Fish Welfare Scoping Report: The Philippines. By Fish Welfare Initiative.

Methods

Rault, J.-L., Hintze, S., Camerlink, I., & Yee, J. R. (2020). Positive Welfare and the Like: Distinct Views and a Proposed Framework. Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 7. https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2020.00370.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to suggestions by the RECAP group, the Fish Advocacy Slack group, the research library of Faunalytics, and suggestions by ACE staff. I also did a search on Google Scholar using the search terms intext:(“meat” AND “consumer behavior”); intext:(“meat” AND “attitudes”); and intext:(“meat” AND “preferences”); after:2020-11-30. (To be improved!)