Perceptions of Factors Influencing Healthful Food Consumption Behavior in the Lower Mississippi Delta: Focus Group Findings

2008 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 102-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernestine B. McGee ◽  
Valerie Richardson ◽  
Glenda S. Johnson ◽  
Alma Thornton ◽  
Crystal Johnson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Food Consumption ◽  
Mississippi Delta ◽  
Consumption Behavior ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Healthful Food

The Dilemma of Purchase Intention

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Brahim Chekima
Keyword(s):  
Food Consumption ◽  
Purchase Intention ◽  
Organic Food ◽  
Time Orientation ◽  
Consumption Behavior ◽  
Consumption Decisions ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Ideal Approach ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
Organic Food Consumption

This article describes how many past studies have assessed the consumption behavior by employing purchase intention drivers/motivational factors of organic food as a proxy to foster organic food consumption. However, the preceding studies' foci do not embrace the consumption itself where purchasing may come secondary to consumption decisions.. Consumption reflects high involvement with the product; and the barriers and motivations are as real as the product itself, which makes it an ideal moment to examine the motivation. Also, there is a lack of effort in re-assessing theories of planned behavior by extending it or incorporating time orientation, different dimensions of attitude and organic food quality attributes to increase and improve understanding of actual organic food consumption behavior. Hence, the objective of this article is to propose an ideal approach and develop a conceptual framework to examine factors influencing organic food consumption. This article provides insight and a better understanding of actual consumption of organic food and adds a new momentum to the growing literature.

scholarly journals Addressing the Sustainability Paradox: The Analysis of “Good Food” in Everyday Life

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (19) ◽  
pp. 8196
Author(s):  
Andreas Exner ◽  
Anke Strüver
Keyword(s):  
Food Consumption ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Food Policy ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Individual Action ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
Consumption Behavior ◽  
Good Food

This paper investigates food consumption in terms of socio-spatial practices as complex patterns of meanings, competencies and materialities that shape daily life. The praxeological approach that we advise might improve food sustainability policies by tackling the current sustainability paradox: persisting unsustainable food consumption despite significant media coverage of food sustainability issues and considerable political attention to this matter. Acknowledging the importance of both individual action and collective conditions in shaping food routines, we argue that the sustainability paradox might be overcome through integrating the analysis of social structures and individual behavior, and consequently addressing the determinants of sustainability in daily life. To this end, we analyze narrative interviews on “good food” regarding cultural meanings, individual competencies, and diverse materialities that govern food consumption, identify common themes and discuss their relevance for food policy. We show that food is part of complex orderings of socio-spatial practices, including embodied knowledge, patterns of commensality and constraints of orchestrating daily life, which cannot be addressed appropriately by targeting individual consumption behavior only.

scholarly journals Identifying Barriers to Implementing Pain Management for Piglet Castration: A Focus Group of Swine Veterinarians

Animals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 1202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brooklyn Wagner ◽  
Kenneth Royal ◽  
Rachel Park ◽  
Monique Pairis-Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Pain Management ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
The United States ◽  
Swine Production ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Audio Recordings ◽  
On Farm ◽  
And Training

Surgical castration is a painful husbandry procedure performed on piglets in the United States (US) to improve meat quality. Veterinarians play a crucial role in developing pain management protocols. However, providing pain management for castration is not common practice in US swine production systems. Therefore, the objective of the present study is to identify factors influencing swine veterinarian decision-making in regard to pain management protocols for piglet castration using focus group methodologies. Swine veterinarians (n = 21) were recruited to participate in one of three focus groups. Audio recordings were transcribed verbatim and analyzed by two independent coders who identified three areas of focus, including (1) the lack of approved products validated for efficacy, (2) economic limitations and challenges, and (3) deficient guidelines and training for veterinarians to develop protocols. Although participating veterinarians acknowledged the importance of pain management from an animal welfare standpoint, these barriers must be addressed to ensure that castration pain can be successfully mitigated on-farm.

scholarly journals Consumers’ Emotion Attitudes towards Organic and Conventional Food: A Comparison Study of Emotional Profiling and Self-Reported Method

Foods ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Ismael ◽  
Angelika Ploeger
Keyword(s):  
Food Consumption ◽  
Good Predictor ◽  
Positive Emotion ◽  
Time Pressure ◽  
Negative Emotion ◽  
Choice Test ◽  
Comparison Study ◽  
Final Choice ◽  
Consumption Behavior ◽  
Consumption Experience

Emotions represent a major driver behind a consumption behavior. It may provide more important information beyond consumers’ preferences. This study contributes to a better understanding of the discrepancy in emotion attitudes towards organic versus conventional food using a cognitive survey and real food consumption experience. An emotional profiling under informed and uninformed condition, a cognitive survey, and a rapid forced-choice test were carried out with 46 consumers. Our work detected a yawning gap in consumers’ declared emotion attitudes in the cognitive survey and elicited emotion attitudes in the food consumption experience. Results showed that consumers exaggerate their positive emotion attitudes towards organic over conventional and their negative emotion attitudes towards conventional over organic. Even though consumers expressed higher negative emotion attitudes towards conventional food than organic in a cognitive survey, during the emotional profiling they had nearly equal emotion attitudes towards both conventional and organic samples. Moreover, positive declared emotions in a cognitive survey formed a good predictor of the final choice of conventional products over organic under time pressure. However, preferences, declared emotion, as well as elicited emotion attitudes were less useful as predictors of organic choice under time pressure. These results show the importance of taking into consideration the type of applied method when investigating consumers’ emotion attitudes towards organic and conventional products.

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