Individual motivations for limiting meat consumption

British Food Journal

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 629-642

  Zur, Ifat ^a   Klöckner, Christian A ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Health beliefs; Meat; Norm activation theory; Psychology; Theory of planned behaviour

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898474338     PISSN: 0007070X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/BFJ-08-2012-0193     Document Type: Article

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