consumption
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Science
Emotional Marketing for Sustainable Consumption: Research Test Social Media Post Effective Chocolate Evaluation
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Does evoking certain emotions increase your desire to pay for sustainedly produced food? Social media often uses emotional messages to influence users’ consumer behavior. An international team of researchers, including the University of Goettingen, investigated the short- and medium-term effects of such content on the willingness to pay for bars of chocolate. They found that in…
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Biology
Scientists challenge ‘misleading’ Dublin Declaration defending meat consumption
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The declaration, which has 1,000 signatories in support of meat consumption and industrial agricultural production, is being challenged by a group of scientists led by Dr Chris Bryant from the University of Bath. In a commentary in Nature Food, 12 scientists from research institutions around the world argue that the ‘Dublin Declaration’ focuses only on the…
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