ArticleAppetite2021
The role of meat appetite in willfully disregarding factory farming as a pandemic catalyst risk.
Article in Appetite, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Development strategy of non-GMO organism for increased hemoproteins in Corynebacterium glutamicum: a growth-acceleration-targeted evolution.Bioprocess and biosystems engineering · 2024Article
- Revisiting the Motivated Denial of Mind to Animals Used for Food: Replication Registered Report of Bastian et al. ().International review of social psychology · 2024Article
- Listen to Us: Perceptions of Animal Voice and Agency.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Psychological Science in the Wake of COVID-19: Social, Methodological, and Metascientific Considerations.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2022Article
- Ideological resistance to veg*n advocacy: An identity-based motivational account.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Most infectious diseases are zoonotic, "jumping" from animals to humans, with COVID-19 no exception. Although many zoonotic transmissions occur on industrial-scale factory farms, public discussions mainly blame wild animal ("wet") markets or focus on reactionary solutions, posing a psychological obstacle to preventing future pandemics. In two pre-registered studies early in the 2020 pandemic, we examined whether British adults fail to recognize factory farming in causing epidemics, and whether such dismissal represents motivated cognition. Cross-sectional data (Study 1, N = 302) confirmed that people blame factory farms and global meat consumption less than wild animal trade and consumption or lack of government preparedness, especially among meat-committed persons. Experimental exposure (Study 2, N = 194) to information blaming factory farms (vs. wild animal markets) produced lower endorsement of preventive solutions than of reactionary solutions, which was exacerbated among meat-committed persons. These findings suggest that people, especially those highly committed to eating meat, willfully disregard solutions targeting animal agriculture and global meat consumption to prevent future pandemics precisely because such solutions implicate their dietary habits. Better understanding motivated beliefs about the causes of and solutions to pandemics is critical for developing interventions.
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