- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
- Organic Food and Agriculture
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Nutritional Studies and Diet
- Municipal Solid Waste Management
Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut
2021-2024
Colorado State University
2024
Max Rubner Institut
2023
Discoloration of beef products leads retailers to offer discounts or discard products, as consumers tend reject a brownish color. This practice contributes retail food waste and inefficient resource allocation linked production. The objective this study was investigate U.S. consumer preferences for color price discounts. After an initial test screen acuity regarding perception using condensed form the ishihara test, data on meat purchasing behavior well demographic information collected all...
Abstract Meat‐focused diets are highly debated considering their environmental and health consequences. A change in consumption patterns industrialized countries seems inevitable. To inform marketers policymakers on how to mitigate meat as a means of obtaining sustainability goals, the present study identifies consumer segments based actual purchases fresh cuts using German household scanner data for year 2014. Our revealed‐preference approach suggests that pork beef traditionalists...
Food waste is a global challenge. Detailed information on quantities and drivers needed to provide tailored recommendations for prevention measures. Current studies meat in the Hospitality Service business (HaFS) sector are rare, often based small sample sizes, seldom use comparable reference units. The present study reports product German HaFS structured telephone interviews. Purchased fresh quantities, as well during storage, due preparation leftovers, captured four different market...
Industry stakeholder requests for improved animal welfare practices in German meat production have steadily increased recent years. A transformation of husbandry systems would almost certainly result higher costs. Against this background, producers and the industry are concerned about losing their international competitiveness while implementing practices. As South Korea is an established trading partner Germany, objective explorative study to assess Korean market trends with a special focus...
Meat consumption has become increasingly relevant within the greater scientific, political, and public debate due to variety of negative effects that it on environment, human health, animal welfare. In Germany, statistical basis for “direct consumption” entails uncertainties is based parameters dating back 1987. The following study deals with an updated revised estimate per capita pork, beef, poultry in focusing supply-side. Unlike original approach, a mass flow analysis. It includes survey...
Negative effects of heavy meat consumption have been critically discussed in politics, the public and science for a long time. As there is heterogeneity consumer behaviour, targeted measures regarding behaviour management can hardly be implemented on basis an average levels but should take into account different segments. Therefore, this study performs segmentation characterisation fresh-meat-shoppers based household panel data provided by GfK. A cluster analysis was performed per capita...