Eden, Sally and Bear, Christopher and Walker, Gordon P. (2008) The sceptical consumer? : exploring views about food assurance. Food Policy, 33 (6). pp. 624-630. ISSN 0306-9192
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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 |
|---|---|
| Journal or Publication Title: | Food Policy |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Consumers ; UK ; Food assurance ; Scepticism ; Q methodology |
| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General) |
| Departments: | Faculty of Science and Technology > Lancaster Environment Centre |
| ID Code: | 30759 |
| Deposited By: | Mr Richard Ingham |
| Deposited On: | 03 Dec 2009 11:03 |
| Refereed?: | Yes |
| Published?: | Published |
| Last Modified: | 26 Jul 2012 16:49 |
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| URI: | http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/30759 |
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