Consumer acceptance of genetically modified foods /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2004.
• Subjects: Food > Biotechnology.; Food preferences.; Consumers' preferences.; Genetically modified foods.; Food Economics, (New March 2000); Consumer Economics.; Food Science and Food Products (Human); Genetic Engineering, Gene Transfer and Transgenics, (New June 2002); Consumer attitudes.; Food safety.; Foods.; Genetically engineered foods.; Genetically engineered organisms.; Electronic books.
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• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 235 pages) : illustrations, charts; Also available in print format.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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This book, with 18 chapters divided into 5 parts, provides a compilation of recent studies on consumer acceptance of genetically modified foods. These studies utilized different methods and evidence and the volume is organized to reflect this. The chapters in this volume find substantial diversity in consumer acceptance patterns internationally. The differences in consumer acceptance patterns do not mirror differences in political action movements, particularly between North America and Europe. In general, European consumers do express more scepticism regarding food safety than North American consumers do. But it also appears that European consumers have less trust in the food safety system and in regulations generally than in the case of North American consumers. This lack of trust combined with small differences in attitudes and acceptances has been translated into differences in political action.