Eden, Sally, Bear, Christopher ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7130-515X and Walker, Gordon 2008. The sceptical consumer? Exploring views about food assurance. Food Policy 33 (6) , pp. 624-630. 10.1016/j.foodpol.2008.02.003 |
Abstract
The problem of trust in food production and regulation has increasingly been raised as a practical and policy issue in recent years and one solution has been to provide more and better information about food production and regulation, especially through food assurance schemes. To look for evidence that this might be successful, this paper uses a small empirical study of how UK consumers think about food information and food assurance claims, using a statement sorting exercise (Q methodology) to identify key factors or shared views. We found that our consumers, despite differences in sociodemographics, gender, diet and shopping habits, tended to share a baseline of scepticism about food information and food assurance claims. We speculate that such scepticism may mean that, rather than providing a solution to the problem of distrust, food assurance schemes may themselves come to be distrusted.
Item Type: | Article |
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Date Type: | Publication |
Status: | Published |
Schools: | Geography and Planning (GEOPL) |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HF Commerce |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Consumers; UK; Food assurance; Scepticism; Q methodology |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
ISSN: | 0306-9192 |
Last Modified: | 21 Oct 2022 09:39 |
URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/37201 |
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