Consumer Demand For Meat Research Articles

SEROPREVALENCE OF TOXOPLASMA GONDII IN GOATS FROM SOUTHWESTERN MISSISSIPPI, USA.

Parasitic infection with Toxoplasma gondii is prevalent in human and animal populations worldwide. Goat production for food and fiber has increased in popularity, and consumer demand for meat and dairy products has led to higher rates of human consumption in the United States. This trend has increased the importance of assessing the public health significance of these dietary commodities. The occurrence of T. gondii and its relevance to commercial goat production for the human food market in Mississippi has not been previously addressed. This study estimated the seroprevalence of T. gondii in breeding-age goats raised for human consumption from 4 counties in southwestern Mississippi. One hundred and forty-four goat serum samples were collected between August 2007 and April 2008 from Hinds (n = 55), Adams (n = 36), Yazoo (n = 36), and Copiah (n = 17) counties. The overall seroprevalence was 12.5% (18/144) and raises concern and justification for preventative measures including periodic surveillance of goat herds and production facilities to ensure a safe food commodity and food hygiene education for consumers.

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Consumer demand for meat is constantly growing and changing in Korea, and a number of studies have examined the determinants of meat demand, especially hanwoo beef. In addition to domestic Korean beef, consumers encounter various alternatives such as the U.S. and Australian beef in the beef market, and purchase them in consideration of their preferences and economic conditions. The selection attributes among various beef types might be interdependent between alternatives. The issue at hand is how to incorporate consumers considering other alternatives in their purchasing decisions. This study implements the multivariate probit model of Hanwoo beef, U.S. beef, and Australian beef that assesses how consumers’ characteristics and perception of beef attributes influence consumer beef purchasing decisions. Results show that significant correlations exist between origins of beef in the purchase decision, suggesting underlying complementary preferences among various beef origins. Taste and nutrition are found as the key factors in the purchasing decision of hanwoo beef, whereas safety and price are not. Moreover, the results reveal that consumers who regularly consume imported beef frequently purchase Hanwoo beef, meaning that there is a possibility to consider either Hanwoo beef or imported beef depending on the purpose of a dish to be cooked at home. Socioeconomic factors like age, income, family size, marital status and residential region significantly determine consumers’ shopping frequency of Hanwoo beef.

Moral Convictions and Meat Consumption-A Comparative Study of the Animal Ethics Orientations of Consumers of Pork in Denmark, Germany, and Sweden.

Simple SummaryIn western Europe, national animal welfare legislation since the 1980s in combination with EU legislation has served to ensure minimal requirements for the welfare of farm animals. For many consumers, however, these requirements do not go far enough. Market-driven initiatives where farmers, processors of animal products, and retailers raise the standards via labelling schemes and price premiums may further improve the welfare of farm animals, but such initiatives are only viable solutions if there is sufficient consumer support. To find out to what extent such support exists, we studied the relationship between animal ethics orientations and consumer demand for welfare-enhanced pork in Denmark, Germany, and Sweden. In all three countries, we identified a consumer segment that endorses the ideal behind schemes to enhance farm animal welfare, i.e., that it is ethically justified to eat meat provided the animals enjoy a good level of welfare. Consumers in this segment are highly concerned about animal welfare, and also purchase welfare pork more often than other consumers. More than one fourth of consumers in all three countries belong to this segment; therefore, we believe that market actors can be reassured that there will be persistent consumer demand for welfare-enhanced meat. Background: The relationship between animal ethics orientations and consumer demand for meat with high standards of animal welfare, and the way this relationship plays out in different countries, is not well understood. Using pork as a case study, this comparative study aims to identify the animal ethics orientations that drive purchases of welfare meat in Denmark, Germany, and Sweden. Methods: Cross-sectional questionnaire data from representative samples of approximately 1600 consumers in each country were collected. A segmentation of pork consumers (using latent profile analysis) was carried out. Results: In all three countries, two subgroups were concerned about farm animal welfare: the first subgroup was driven by animal rights values; the second subgroup by animal protection values, where the main principle was that “it is all right to use animals as long as they are treated well”. Other consumer groups are less concerned about farm animal welfare and display little or no preference for welfare pork. Conclusions: In all three countries, dual demand for welfare pork exists. The findings of this study can be used, among others, to understand the marketability of enhanced welfare animal products and the potential for market-driven animal welfare improvements.

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The paper presents statistical data that reflect pork production in the Russian Federation. It is noted that the main production growth in this meat type in agricultural organizations is conditioned by the high level of state support in the regions, modernization of existing pig complexes and construction of new ones. Moreover, according to our data, a drop in population’s income (more than by 5 %) is expected at the end of 2020 that would be a record since 2014. Therefore, as representatives of the largest companies notice, measures to support consumer demand for meat and meat products should be taken, and the assortment of the manufactured products should be optimized. These measures will allow enterprises to increase sales of meat and meat products and improve profitability. The study is aimed at obtaining topical information about pork consumers. The results of the study will be of current interest both for pork producers and for companies engaged in distribution, wholesale and retail trade.

Carcass traits and meat quality properties as affected by nutritional programs and feeding patterns in a rabbit enterprise

This review looks at the effects of nutrition on carcass traits and meat quality properties in rabbits. Nutrition is a dominant integral part of a rabbit production enterprise that if appropriately modified will impart acceptable carcass and meat quality attributes sort in new demand market. This implies that feeding an appropriate diet to rabbits is the single most critical component in improving carcass traits and meat quality properties in a rabbit enterprise. Rabbits are instinctively unique in the sense that they have exhibited a relatively pronounced universal taste for common local feedstuffs composed to a greater extent of roughage and agricultural by-products. The utilization of dietary nutrient sources by rabbits is reliant on a variety of complementary determinants that include not only specific energy and protein sources but also intake and digestibility. The high pro health nutritional value and acceptable sensory attributes of rabbit meat have advanced its consumption in several countries and its gaining popularity. Today, when consumer demand for meat are inclined towards consumption of low fat, low calorie and positive healthy meats, new meat sources such as rabbits are increasing their share in the meat markets. Carcass traits and meat quality have shown to positively respond to different dietary nutritional levels and sources in rabbit production. Suitable nutrition regime would improve slaughter weight, hot and cold carcass weight, dressing percentage and the proportion of valuable giblets. Rabbit fed local unconventional feedstuffs can produce meat with similar or greater amounts of claimable polyunsaturated acids than feeding systems based on feedlot pellets alone. Dietary fats inclusion levels and their sources are important in expressing demanded carcass and meat quality properties, especially on influencing the type of fatty acid composition in meat. Feeding strategies through manipulation of dietary factors should endeavor at increasing the scope of unsaturated fatty acids, while decreasing the portion of objectionable saturated fatty acids promoting pro health value. Future rabbit nutritional research should shift from focusing on promoting quantity to enhancement of quality in response to the new demand market for healthy food in addition to promoting nutritional value and acceptable sensory properties. Heterogeneity in alternative energy and protein sources and their potential replacement value of alternative feedstuff in rabbits’ diets should be the targeted outcome from the nutritional research in rabbit meat production.

Modelling consumer's behaviour of the meat consumption in Slovakia

There exists a plenty extensive theoretical and empirical literature on what determines the consumption levels over time and across countries, but less research into the changes in the consumption patterns (i.e. the mix of different goods and services that is purchased). To better understand how changing incomes and prices influenced the consumption patterns, the contribution estimates the Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS) models. The aim of the paper is to find patterns and preference changes in the consumer demand for meat in Slovakia. From the methodological aspect, there were used important items of the demand, and for the consumer behaviour analysis, there were computed elasticity coefficients by using the model AIDS. The coefficients of the price and income demand elasticity were determined. The computed elasticities showed that all meat items had a positive income elasticity of demand which implies that they were normal goods. Beef and pork were expenditure (income) elastic and hence could be considered as a luxury, while poultry and fish were income inelastic meaning that those were of necessity.

The Consequences of the Imposition of Restrictions on Pork Imports in 2014 and the Import Substitution Prospects for Russia's Domestic Pig Farming Sector

The short-term consequences of the bans imposed in 2014 on pork imports into Russia from the countries that used to be major suppliers of meat to this country are as follows: an altered geography of import supplies, rising prices on the pork market and related markets, and plummeting consumer demand for meat and meat products. At the same time, the medium-term perspective offers some favorable opportunities for turning the domestic pig farming sector into the main source of import substitution. The present course towards boosting import substitution is fraught with the risk of overinvestment into that sector with the resulting market oversaturation, while the rate of return on investment in the sector is too low to ensure loan repayment.

Evidence of consumers' willingness to pay for the national animal identification system of the United States

With the United States National Animal Identification System (NAIS) in place, consumers' concerns about Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) are mitigated and, by inference, consumers will be willing to pay for the NAIS. We estimated twelve alternative specifications of the generalized almost ideal demand system for beef, pork, and poultry, including indexes of news coverage of BSE in the U.S. as proxies for consumers' risk perception on BSE. Using the preferred model, we constructed scenarios on the basis of hypothesized impacts of the NAIS on consumers' risk perception on BSE inmeat. We found that the impact of BSE on consumer demand for meat was in itself sufficient to cover previously estimated costs of implementing the NAIS.

Consumer demand for meat and the evaluation of agricultural policy

This study utilizes an econometric model of equilibrium in the U.S. livestock and feedgrain markets to investigate a number of questions of economic methodology and policy. Both nonlinear consumer demand equations that obey the constraints of neoclassical demand theory and a model of supply are used. This approach allows for the measurement of the effects on consumer welfare of actual government policies. In particular, the model is employed to analyze the welfare effects of an actual policy situation — the sale of U.S. grain to the Soviet Union in the third quarter of 1972.

Consumer attitudes and demand for meat

The present state of the food market emphasizes the need to reappraise the analysis of the market for meat. Consumer demand for meat is analyzed in terms of a complex mixture of acceptable levels of leanness, tenderness and flavour and of price and income influences. This analysis is a confusing mixture of incomplete economists' and marketeers' models.As with many disciplines, it is in agriculture and food that we see their first application. Economics is a good example of this. The now conventional models of demand have found wide application and provide a sound foundation for an analysis of the general level and trends in the meat market. Thus, the MLC is able to regularly produce an analysis and forecast for the level of demand for beef, lamb, pigmeat and poultry as commodities and by major subdivision of those commodities (MLC, 1981). This paper does not seek to repeat those results other than to note their revelation of a substantially stable overall consumption level, with steady gains by poultrymeat at the expense of carcass meats, particularly lamb.

Consumer Demand for Meat in Canada

AbstractAn application of Zellner's [13] two‐stage procedure is illustrated in the estimation of the parameters of a system of linear, contemporaneously related demand functions for beef, veal, pork, lamb, and chicken meat in Canada, based on annual data for the period 1950 to 1970.