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Article Excerpt
This summary reports on a study of Canadian consumers' attitudes and awareness relative to a variety of food and environmental issues associated with Canadian agriculture.
Previous research on consumer attitudes and perceptions of various food safety and environmental issues has included surveys focused on single food technologies or food safety issues. Examples are Govindasamy and Italia (1) on pesticides; Grobe et al. (2) on hormones; Veeman et al. (3) on GM food. Some studies focused on several issues, such as Nayga (4) on irradiation, antibiotics, hormones, and pesticides; Dosman et al. (5) on pesticides, hormones, additives; and Hwang et al. (6) on antibiotics, pesticides, hormones, GM, and irradiation.
Gender is concluded to be an important determinant of risk perceptions across a variety of food and environmental concerns. In general, women perceived more...
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