Reducing Meat Consumption in Today's Consumer Society: Questioning the Citizen-Consumer Gap

Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 877-894

  de Bakker, Erik ^a   Dagevos, Hans ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Consumer society; Ethical consumer; Flexitarianism; Food citizen; Meat; Sustainable consumption; Transition

Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL CHANGE; FOOD CONSUMPTION; HEDONIC ANALYSIS; MEAT; PROTEIN; SUSTAINABILITY;

EID: 84869094978     PISSN: 11877863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10806-011-9345-z     Document Type: Article

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