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2022 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 100592
Author(s):  
Marion C. Herens ◽  
Katherine H. Pittore ◽  
Peter J.M. Oosterveer

Foods ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 2922
Author(s):  
Sishir K Kamalapuram ◽  
Harish Handral ◽  
Deepak Choudhury

The dietary protein requirements of almost 9.8 billion people need to be fulfilled in a healthy and sustainable manner by 2050. Meat consumption contributes to 35% of the total protein requirement of the Indian population. Meat intake needs to be sustainable and economical without causing food security and production issues. Consumption of meat in India is projected to rise with an increase in consumer incomes. Hence, novel alternative proteins, including cultured meat (CM) and plant-based meat (PBM), are being developed to satisfy the demand for meat-derived proteins in the diet. This involves the creation of novel PBM/CM products with a similar taste and texture as conventional animal meat with tailor-made nutritional attributes. In this article, we provide critical insights into the technical and business aspects of relevance to production and sustainability encountered by the Indian CM industry at a series of stages that can be termed the CM value chain comprising upstream and downstream processes. We shed light on the need for regulatory authorities and a framework. Consumer concerns towards CM products can be alleviated through effective scientific communication strategies, including prior familiarity, narrative building and transparency, and labelling aspects of CM products.


2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elaine L. Ritch

PurposeThe purpose of this research is to examine how consumers interpret and understand sustainable fashion production and how this informs their fashion consumption practice.Design/methodology/approachThe research adopts an interpretivist approach with in-depth interviews with 28 participants. Sampling criterion sought consumers already engaged with sustainable production – professionally working mothers – to explore how their sustainability knowledge was evaluated for sustainable fashion claims. Garment labels that descripted facets of sustainable production were introduced to encourage discourse of sustainable fashion knowledge.FindingsThe findings illustrate that sustainable fashion production is not understood and efforts to apply sustainability concepts were often misunderstood which led to scepticism for higher pricing and marketing claims. Despite this, there was concern for the wider implications of sustainability.Research limitations/implicationsLimitations include the small sample from one geographical area (Edinburgh), despite the richness of the data collected.Practical implicationsThe research offers practical advice for fashion marketers to educate consumers through effective communication strategies how sustainable fashion concepts improve consumer concerns surrounding fashion production.Social implicationsThe research indicates increased concern for fashion sustainability, something that fashion retailers should be mindful of.Originality/valueThere has been little research examining consumer interpretation of sustainable fashion terminology, and this research adds to understanding how sustainability is evaluated within fashion production.


2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Farida Saleem ◽  
Yingying Zhang-Zhang ◽  
C. Gopinath ◽  
Muhammad Imran Malik

PurposeThe paper aims to explore how market pressures, upper echelons theory and slack resources interact to affect pro-environmental strategies in an emerging market. Specifically, the authors assess external market factors (consumer concerns, regulatory forces and competitors' concerns) in terms of how they are negotiated through internal resources and company capabilities (top management commitment and discretionary slack) to produce or not produce pro-environmental strategies (environmental corporate strategy and environmental marketing strategy).Design/methodology/approachA total of 1,000 questionnaires were distributed in the Pakistani manufacturing sector – where energy use and natural resources consumption is intensive. The final 181 useable responses were analyzed using covariance-based structural equation modeling and the PROCESS macro.FindingsThe results reveal that regulatory forces and competitors' concerns have both direct and conditional indirect effects on environmental corporate strategy but only conditional indirect effects on environmental marketing strategies through the mediation of top management commitment and at different levels of discretionary slack. However, consumer concerns remain inconsequential antecedents with insignificant direct effects and conditional indirect effects on environmental corporate and marketing strategies through the mediation of top management commitment at different levels of discretionary slack.Originality/valueThe authors propose an integrative model as a functioning mechanism for the environmental strategic decisions of companies in emerging markets. This model relies on both slack resource and upper echelons theories. These findings contribute to a better understanding of the impacts of internal and external determinants and functions on environmental strategies at corporate and functional levels in emerging markets. The various paths to diverse levels of environmental strategy and the insignificant role of consumer concerns suggest a need for further investigation of corporate environmentalism in emerging markets that consider their distinctive legal, societal, market and institutional contexts.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongyun Lu ◽  
Wen Zhao ◽  
Wei-Hsien Liu ◽  
Ting Sun ◽  
Hanghang Lou ◽  
...  

Probiotics have been reported to play a major role in maintaining the balance of microbiota in host. Consumption of food with probiotics has increased with consumer concerns regarding healthy diets and wellness. Correspondingly, safety evaluation of probiotics for human consumption has become increasingly important in food industry. Herein, we aimed to test the safety of Bifidobacterium lactis BL-99 and Lacticaseibacillus paracasei K56 and ET-22 strains in vitro and in vivo. In results, these strains were found to be negative for mucin degradation and platelet aggregation test. Additionally, the three strains were susceptible to eight antibiotics. In accordance with bacterial reversion mutation (Ames) assay, the tested strains had no genetic mutagenicity. Finally, it was confirmed that there were no dose-dependent mortality and toxicity throughout multidose oral toxicity tests in rats. Our findings demonstrated that B. lactis BL-99 and L. paracasei K56 and ET-22 can achieve the generally recognized as safe (GRAS) status as probiotics in the future.


Author(s):  
Tom Condon ◽  
Craig Murphy ◽  
Roy D Sleator ◽  
Michelle M Judge ◽  
Siobhan Ring ◽  
...  

Abstract Awareness and interest in calf health and wellbeing is intensifying, prompting change in the management and breeding decisions of producers and associated policy-makers. The objectives of the present study were to 1) quantify the risk factors associated with subjectively-measured scores of vigour and birth size as well as diagnoses of scour and pneumonia in a large national dataset of beef calves, and 2) to estimate the contribution of genetic variance to such phenotypic measures. After edits, the data consisted of health and birth size data subjectively scored by producers on 88,207 calves born in 6,126 Irish beef herds. Vigour was recorded on a scale of 1 (very poor) to 5 (very good). Birth size was also scored on a scale of 1 (very small) to 5 (very large). Scour and pneumonia were both scored independently based on the suspected number of occurrence of each (0 = no occurrence, 1 = one occurrence or 2 = more than one occurrence). On average, 14.7% of calves were recorded as having had at least one occurrence of scour within the first 5 months of life, whereas 6.4% of calves were recorded as having had at least one occurrence of pneumonia within the first 5 months of life. Relative to female calves, male calves had a worse vigour score and a suspected greater incidence of both scour and pneumonia. Relative to singletons, twins were, on average, smaller at birth, they had a worse vigour score, and they were more prone to scour. Calves born in the later periods of the calving season (i.e., late and very late) had a greater incidence of scour relative to calves in the herd born earlier in the calving season. Heritability estimates for vigour, birth size and pneumonia were 0.12 (0.02), 0.33 (0.03) and 0.08 (0.02), respectively; no genetic variance was detected for scour. Breeding for vigorous calves that are less susceptible to pneumonia could provide producers with an additional strategy to ensure consumer concerns regarding food quality, safety and calf wellbeing are being met.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-23
Author(s):  
Klaus Wertenbroch

Abstract Automated and personalized interactions may increase the relevance of marketing offers, but they also have less positive economic and psychological consequences for consumers. Machine learning-based prediction algorithms can approximate individuals’ preferences and their willingness to pay at ever greater levels of precision, and companies can use this knowledge to charge higher individual prices. Typically, consumers freely hand over all the information necessary to reveal their preferences and it seems that they underestimate the value of their personal data. And there is another discomforting aspect of giving away personal data. It means giving up privacy and as a result loosing autonomy. Preventing negative outcomes is typically a task for regulators but finding solutions can be difficult. Therefore, companies need to address consumer concerns in their policies as well. To avoid dystopia, managers need to take consumer psychology into account and resist the temptation to maximize short-term profits at the cost of consumers. Avoiding marketing dystopia is in the best interest of all market participants – at least with a longer-term perspective.


2021 ◽  
Vol 116 ◽  
pp. 106657
Author(s):  
Anthony Samuel ◽  
Gareth R.T. White ◽  
Robert Thomas ◽  
Paul Jones
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2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 2195
Author(s):  
Herman Donner ◽  
Michael Steep

Academics and businesses alike tend to fail at understanding how the IoT revolution is monetized. We outline three main categories of how IoT will impact business models: (a) improved customer matching and tracking of marketing returns, (b) individualized offers and pricing when consumer demand and price elasticities can be identified, and (c) smart device and usage monitoring that allows for outcome-based contracts and servitization. Data convergence creates context-based-intelligence, which enables a shift from using consumer profiles for targeted advertising to individualized offers and pricing. The required depth of both consumer data and understanding of context will require collaborative efforts between companies and blur the lines between industrial- and consumer-IoT applications. Outlining concerns for privacy and cybersecurity, we find that consumer demand for decision-simplicity and relevant content aligns with the business model of “free” services in return for data, despite consumer concerns relating to data collection.


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