Challenges and prospects for consumer acceptance of cultured meat

Journal of Integrative Agriculture

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 285-294

  Verbeke, Wim ^a   Sans, Pierre ^b,c   Van Loo, Ellen J ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Acceptance; Artificial; Attitude; Consumer; Cultured; In vitro; Meat; Synthetic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919931311     PISSN: 20953119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2095-3119(14)60884-4     Document Type: Review

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