Abstract
Introduction: this paper presents the development and validation of an instrument to measure the perceptions and attitudes about the production and consumption of the Mexican urban consumers towards genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Method: The proposed questionnaire contains 63 questions that encompassed 11 latent factors that was applied to 14,720 people of the Mexican urban population aged between 18 to 65 years. This measuring questionnaire was validated using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Results: we found that it is acceptable the proposed instrument for measuring perceptions and attitudes towards genetically modified organisms (PAGMOs) for the urban Mexican population. Discussion and Conclusion: The same instrument (construct) it is suitable for each of the 8 regions studied since with the multi-group CFA performed we found evidence that this is valid for each of the regions under study. Also, the analysis of the questions of the proposed instrument revealed that participants have a low general knowledge, a high distrust towards GMOs, want labeling of genetically modified (GM) products and not perceive their social values and positive health effects beyond increasing agricultural productivity.
Highlights
In the world several Genetic Engineering techniques are being developed and applied in plants and animals to increase the production of food that is made with Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) in order to increase production and extend safety levels and reduce malnutrition in the population in poor and developing countries (Kimani & Zennah, 2019)
High societal values are associated with a positive attitude towards gene technology (AGT), buying (AB) and high perceived risks (RP)
In this paper we developed an instrument to measuring perceptions and attitudes towards the production and consumption of GMOs in the Mexican urban population
Summary
In the world several Genetic Engineering techniques are being developed and applied in plants and animals to increase the production of food that is made with Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) in order to increase production and extend safety levels and reduce malnutrition in the population in poor and developing countries (Kimani & Zennah, 2019). Consumer behavior has a higher level of distrust, in relation to the production and processing of foods with genetic engineering, considering the large number of diseases that are currently known. In the period from 1996 to 2019, crops with genetic engineering have been adopted by the commercial industry, by small and large farmers in industrialized and developing countries, this type of products and food are immersed in a great social controversy In the last 23 years, more than 2.15 million hectares of biotech crops have been commercially ijbm.ccsenet.org
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