IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ags/aaea14/170461.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

ll Around the (Genetically-Modified) Mulberry Bush: Information-seeking and Consumer Preferences for Genetically Modified Food Labeling in Vermont

Author

Listed:
  • Kolodinsky, Jane M.
  • Reynolds, Travis

Abstract

Consumer demands for labeling of genetically modified (GM) food products have the potential to dramatically impact the way food crops are produced and distributed in the U.S. In May 2014 Vermont became the first U.S. state to legally require the labeling of GM foods. This study uses several waves of data from an annual survey of Vermont households to explore consumer preference heterogeneity surrounding GM foods as well as changes in demographic and attitudinal determinants of demand for GM food labels since the year 2000. Findings suggest women, some high-income respondents, and relatively educated respondents have consistently been more opposed to GM foods over time, but that opposition to GM foods has decreased over time in other demographic groups, especially women. But at the same time, since 2000 the demand for GM labels has steadily increased among all demographic groups in Vermont, including both pro-GM and anti-GM respondents, reaching 96% support for labeling in 2013.

Suggested Citation

  • Kolodinsky, Jane M. & Reynolds, Travis, 2014. "ll Around the (Genetically-Modified) Mulberry Bush: Information-seeking and Consumer Preferences for Genetically Modified Food Labeling in Vermont," 2014 Annual Meeting, July 27-29, 2014, Minneapolis, Minnesota 170461, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:aaea14:170461
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.170461
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/170461/files/Kolodinsky_Reynolds%202014%20GMO%20Mulberry%20Bush%2005282014%20.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.170461?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Fan, Linlin & Stevens, Andrew W. & Thomas, Betty, 2022. "Consumer purchasing response to mandatory genetically engineered labeling," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 110(C).
    2. Thomas, Elizabeth & Fan, Linlin & Stevens, Andrew W., 2020. "Consumer Purchasing Response to Genetically Engineered Labeling," 2020 Annual Meeting, July 26-28, Kansas City, Missouri 304523, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:aaea14:170461. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/aaeaaea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.