Can health benefits break down Nordic consumers’ rejection of genetically modified foods?: A conjoint study of Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish consumers preferences for hard cheese

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Since 1990s genetically modified foods began to appear in the market place. The most common genetically modified products are soy bean, corn, cotton and canola and the most important genetically modified characteristics are herbicide tolerance and insect resistance. Worries about safety of genetically modified foods led to establishment of labeling rules. Since 1997 based on regulations of Euro...

Consumer Attitudes Towards Genetically Modified Foods: A Comparison between Sweden and San Francisco

In comparison to European Union markets, where bans and protests have limited availability, genetically modified (GM) foods have entered United States supermarkets with little public opposition. This study compared attitudes towards GM foods in San Francisco versus Swedish consumers to determine if a difference exists. Previous studies have concluded that a difference exists although no study h...

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Feedback in Nordic First-Encounters: a Comparative Study

The paper compares how feedback is expressed via speech and head movements in comparable corpora of first encounters in three Nordic languages: Danish, Finnish and Swedish. The three corpora have been collected following common guidelines, and they have been annotated according to the same scheme in the NOMCO project. The results of the comparison show that in this data the most frequent feedba...

Study and Comparison of Genetically and Non-Genetically Modified Rice from View Point of Possibility of Gene Transferring in Blood of Labouraty Animal

Introduction: Genetically modified plants species of plants are produced by the genetic engineering of agricultural science and the addition of specific genes in their genetic sequences with the aim of optimizing the product and creating desirable traits. This study examined the remains of Cry1A(b) and P35 genes in blood of rats fed with genetically modified rice. Methods: This study was exper...