Attitudes and beliefs of Eastern European consumers towards piglet castration and meat from castrated pigs
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41210%2F20%3A80938" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41210/20:80938 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030917401930169X" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030917401930169X</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.meatsci.2019.107965" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.meatsci.2019.107965</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Attitudes and beliefs of Eastern European consumers towards piglet castration and meat from castrated pigs
Original language description
Castration of male piglets is a common practice to avoid boar taint but is being questioned. The present work has an exploratory character and aims to investigate the beliefs and attitudes of Eastern European consumers regarding boar taint, surgical castration immunocastration and perception of meat from castrated pigs and to find out possible segments of consumers regarding these attitudes and beliefs. For this purpose, a consumer study was carried out involving 5508 consumers from 13 Eastern European countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Croatia, North Macedonia, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine). The questionnaire included statements related to beliefs about castration and perception of meat from castrated pigs, attitudes towards meat from castrated pigs. Results show that in general beliefs and attitudes of the consumers are not defined, probably because of the lack of knowledge (information was not provided to the consumers) towards
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
40203 - Husbandry
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Meat Science
ISSN
0309-1740
e-ISSN
1873-4138
Volume of the periodical
160
Issue of the periodical within the volume
february
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
1-10
UT code for WoS article
000500038000013
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85073757063