May 2021

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.

Animal-free foods

de Oliveira, G. A., Domingues, C. H. de F., & Borges, J. A. R. (2021). Analyzing the importance of attributes for Brazilian consumers to replace conventional beef with cultured meat. PLOS ONE, 16(5), e0251432. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0251432


Szejda, K., Bryant, C. J., & Urbanovich, T. (2021). US and UK Consumer Adoption of Cultivated Meat: A Segmentation Study. Foods, 10(5), 1050. https://doi.org/10.3390/foods10051050


The Good Food Institute (2021). 2020 State of the Industry Report: Cultivated Meat. Link to pdf


The Good Food Institute (2021). 2020 State of the Industry Report: Fermentation for Alternative Proteins. Link to pdf


The Good Food Institute (2021). 2020 State of the Industry Report: Plant-Based Meat, Eggs, and Dairy. Link to pdf

Diet change

Bakdash, T., & Marsh, C. (2021). Knowledge, Attitudes, and Beliefs Regarding the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Women in Kansas. Journal of Community Health. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10900-021-00994-1


Koch, F., Krems, C., Heuer, T., & Claupein, E. (2021). Attitudes, perceptions and behaviours regarding meat consumption in Germany: results of the NEMONIT study. Journal of Nutritional Science, 10. https://doi.org/10.1017/jns.2021.34


La Barbera, F., Amato, M., Fasanelli, R., & Verneau, F. (2021). Perceived Risk of Insect-Based Foods: An Assessment of the Entomophagy Attitude Questionnaire Predictive Validity. Insects, 12(5), 403. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects12050403


Mathur, M. B., Peacock, J., Reichling, D. B., Nadler, J., Bain, P. A., Gardner, C. D., & Robinson, T. N. (2021). Interventions to reduce meat consumption by appealing to animal welfare: Meta-analysis and evidence-based recommendations. Appetite, 164, 105277. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2021.105277


Senthilkumar, T., Muralidhar, V. &.Thilakar, P. (2021). Analysis of socio-economic factors affecting meat consumption behaviour among rural and urban households. International Journal of Development Extension, link to pdf


The Good Food Institute (2021). Choosing alternative seafood: Key insights from research on consumer needs, preferences, and motivations. Link to pdf


YÜKSEL, A., & YILMAZ ÖNAL, H. (2021). Evaluation of University Students’ Knowledge of and Practices for Sustainable Nutrition. International Journal of Agriculture, Environment and Food Sciences, 146–156. https://doi.org/10.31015/jaefs.2021.2.3


Wang, O., & Scrimgeour, F. (2021). Willingness to adopt a more plant-based diet in China and New Zealand: Applying the theories of planned behaviour, meat attachment and food choice motives. Food Quality and Preference, 93, 104294. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2021.104294

Social change

Aggarwal, A., Gupta, R., & Rawat, S. (2021). Understanding of Various Diet Preferences and Cognizance about Zoonotic Diseases. International Journal of Health Sciences and Research, 11(4), 255–262. https://doi.org/10.52403/ijhsr.20210430


Dhont, K., Piazza, J., & Hodson, G. (2021). The role of meat appetite in willfully disregarding factory farming as a pandemic catalyst risk. Appetite, 164, 105279. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2021.105279


Domingo, N. G. G., Balasubramanian, S., Thakrar, S. K., Clark, M. A., Adams, P. J., Marshall, J. D., Muller, N. Z., Pandis, S. N., Polasky, S., Robinson, A. L., Tessum, C. W., Tilman, D., Tschofen, P., & Hill, J. D. (2021). Air quality–related health damages of food. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(20), e2013637118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2013637118


MacInnis, C. C., & Hodson, G. (2021). Tensions within and between vegans and vegetarians: Meat-free motivations matter. Appetite, 164, 105246. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2021.105246


Pereira Pinto, R., & Vaz-Velho, M. (2021). A perspective of the Portuguese consumer awareness, beliefs and preferences towards piglet castration methods and its implications on the meat quality. https://doi.org/10.15159/AR.21.078


Vigors, B, Ewing, DA & Lawrence, AB 2021, 'Happy or healthy? How members of the public prioritise farm animal health and natural behaviours', PLoS ONE, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. e0247788.

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247788


Villas-Boas, S.B., Copfer, J. & Campbell, N. (2021). Preferences for Sustainability and Supply Chain Essential Worker Conditions: Survey Evidence during COVID-19. UC Berkeley, CUDARE Working Papers, Link to pdf

Animal welfare campaigns

The Humane League UK (2021) Inspiring action for farmed fishes: finding messaging that motivates. Link to pdf

Methods

Acknowledgments

Thanks to suggestions by the RECAP group, the Fish Advocacy Slack group, the research library of Faunalytics, the FAST list, 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:2021-04-31. (To be improved!)