期刊名称：Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
印刷版ISSN：1068-5502
出版年度：2019
卷号：44
期号：2
页码：345-361
出版社：WAEA
摘要：Animal welfare–related production attributes are increasingly considered by U.S. consumersmaking food purchasing decisions and U.S. voters at the ballot box. This research considersU.S. consumer preferences for egg production attributes. The results reveal preferences for lesshen stress, more natural hen behavior, and improved worker health and welfare. We propose anindex combining animal welfare scores and consumer preference shares for determining preferredcombinations of egg production attributes. When weighting hen housing systems by consumerpreference for animal and worker welfare attributes, the preferred system is enriched colonyhousing, which differs from recent retailer commitments to cage-free aviaries.
关键词：animal welfare index; best;worst scaling; egg industry; hen welfare; preference;elicitation
