This research demonstrates that global food products suffer from healthiness bias – a tendency to favor local and evaluate them as healthier than equivalent or foreign products. The paper extends previous findings provides empirical evidence the perception of product’s is driver this phenomenon. Results three between-subject experimental design studies indicate (versus foreign) are associated w...

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of country-of-origin image, consumer ethnocentrism and animosity on the purchase of domestic and foreign products in China. AMOS software was used to analyze the data from the questionnaire survey. The results indicate that the effects of consumer ethnocentrism are significant in the case of domestic and foreign products in China, and the hypo...

this study was conducted at the aim of determining development strategies for marketing healthy food products. the study data was collected by conducting field survey and compeleting a questionnaire. using simple random sampling, about 400 hamedan citizens were selected in 2013. the data analysis was conducted by ordinal logit model with method of maximum likelihood. according to the results, 3...

The key objective of agricultural protectionism is reflected in the protection and developing of agriculture sector. Integrated parts of this policy in the European Union are the initial model of agricultural protectionism and a new strategy of agricultural policy, which emerged as a response to the shortcomings of previously existing model. The paper presents the key reforms of agricultural po...

abstract: on december 2010, the government of iran ended the decades-long subsidy program for bread and energy products and launched the targeted subsidy reform program that considerably raised prices of food products. the objective of the study was to measure welfare impacts of food price changes on iranian urban households between two survey data of 2009/10 and 2011/12 which were taken from i...

observed. It was mainly due to the developments in biological studies, the change of a population lifestyle and the increase in the consumer awareness concerning food products. The health quality of food depends mainly on nutrients, but also on foreign substances such as food additives. The presence of foreign substances in the food can be justified, allowed or tolerated only when they are harm...

whereas public information campaigns have failed to reverse the rising trend in obesity, economists support food taxes as they suggest they can force individuals to change their eating behavior and make the agro-food industry think more about healthy food products. excise taxes based on the unhealthy nutrient content would be more effective since they impact more on unhealthy food products than...

Chromium plays an important role in human and animal bodies. According to the oxidation state chromium can be advantageous for human health and, simultaneously possesses toxic properties. In this work the studies concerning the chromium content in the total and Cr (VI) forms in selected and frequently used during breakfast food products were presented. The largest quantities of the metal occur ...

1. Domestication and Development Of Breeds 1.1. Chickens 1.2. Turkeys 1.3. Ducks 2. Production Systems 2.1. Rural Production Systems 2.2. Intensive Commercial Production 2.2.1. Meat-Type Chickens 2.2.2. Egg-Type Chickens 2.2.3. Turkeys 2.2.4. Ducks 3. Marketing and Preservation 4. Worldwide Distribution 5. Yields of Product from Poultry 6. Composition of Products 7. Advantages and Disadvantages...