May 2022

This list includes all studies we know of published in May that are:

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

  • 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 ellen.pelos@animalcharityevaluators.org.

Animal-free foods

Ianovici, I., Zagury, Y., Redenski, I., Lavon, N., & Levenberg, S. (2022). 3D-printable plant protein-enriched scaffolds for cultivated meat development. Biomaterials, 284, 121487. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biomaterials.2022.121487

Diet change

Bianchi, F., Stewart, C., Astbury, N. M., Cook, B., Aveyard, P., & Jebb, S. A. (2022). Replacing meat with alternative plant-based products (RE-MAP): a randomized controlled trial of a multicomponent behavioral intervention to reduce meat consumption. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 115(5), 1357–1366. https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/nqab414


Crovato, S., Pinto, A., Di Martino, G., Mascarello, G., Rizzoli, V., Marcolin, S., & Ravarotto, L. (2022). Purchasing habits, sustainability perceptions, and welfare concerns of italian consumers regarding rabbit meat. Foods, 11(9). https://doi.org/10.3390/foods11091205


Cuffey, J., Chenarides, L., Li, W., & Zhao, S. (2022). Consumer spending patterns for plant‐based meat alternatives. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy. https://doi.org/10.1002/aepp.13280


Dijkstra, A., & Rotelli, V. (2022). Lowering red meat and processed meat consumption with environmental, animal welfare, and health arguments in italy: an online experiment. Frontiers in Psychology, 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.877911


Jang, H.-W., & Cho, M. (2022). What attributes of meat substitutes matter most to consumers? the role of sustainability education and the meat substitutes perceptions. Sustainability, 14(9), 4866. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14094866


Katare, B., Yim, H., Byrne, A., Wang, H. H., & Wetzstein, M. (2022). Consumer willingness to pay for environmentally sustainable meat and a plant‐based meat substitute. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy. https://doi.org/10.1002/aepp.13285


Liu, W., Hao, Z., Florkowski, W. J., Wu, L., & Yang, Z. (2022). Assuring food security: consumers’ ethical risk perception of meat substitutes. Agriculture, 12(5), 671. https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture12050671


Pechey, R., Bateman, P., Cook, B., & Jebb, S. A. (2022). Impact of increasing the relative availability of meat-free options on food selection: two natural field experiments and an online randomised trial. The International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 19(1), 9. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12966-021-01239-z


Rayala, H.-T., Rebolledo, N., Hall, M. G., & Taillie, L. S. (2022). Perceived message effectiveness of the meatless monday campaign: an experiment with US adults. American Journal of Public Health, 112(5), 724–727. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2022.306766


Shi, H., Ma, P., Zeng, Y., & Sheng, J. (2022). Understanding the Interaction between Regulatory Focus and Message Framing in Determining Chinese Consumers’ Attitudes toward Artificial Meat. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(9). https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19094948


Sogari, G., Li, J., Wang, Q., Lefebvre, M., Huang, S., Mora, C., & Gómez, M. I. (2022). Toward a reduced meat diet: University North American students’ acceptance of a blended meat-mushroom burger. Meat Science, 187, 108745. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.meatsci.2022.108745


Stiles, G., Collins, J., & Beck, K. L. (2022). Effectiveness of Strategies to Decrease Animal-Sourced Protein and/or Increase Plant-Sourced Protein in Foodservice Settings: A Systematic Literature Review. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, 122(5), 1013–1048. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jand.2021.12.010


Szenderák, J., Fróna, D., & Rákos, M. (2022). Consumer Acceptance of Plant-Based Meat Substitutes: A Narrative Review. Foods, 11(9). https://doi.org/10.3390/foods11091274

Animal welfare campaigns

Estévez-Moreno, L. X., Miranda-de la Lama, G. C., & Miguel-Pacheco, G. G. (2022). Consumer attitudes towards farm animal welfare in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia: A segmentation-based study. Meat Science, 187, 108747. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.meatsci.2022.108747


Mwaniki, J. M. (2022). Which types of animal advocacy interventions are likely to have the highest impact in African countries? Animal Advocacy Africa. https://www.animaladvocacyafrica.org/blog/which-types-of-animal-advocacy-interventions-are-likely-to-have-the-highest-impact-in-african-countriesexamining-the-effectiveness-of-four-intervention-types-across-five-countries

Acknowledgements

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.


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