ReviewInsects2022
Edible Insects as Food-Insect Welfare and Ethical Aspects from a Consumer Perspective.
Review in Insects, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.
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- Insects as an Alternative Protein Source: A Sustainable Approach to Future Food Security.Insects · 2026Review
- Towards Bioethical and Functional Standards in the Slaughter Methods of Edible Insects: A Narrative Review.Insects · 2026Review
- Identification of Legal Barriers to the Rearing and Processing of Insects in the EU-Implications Based on a Case Study.Insects · 2026Article
- Can cultivated hamster cells compete with chicken meat? Insights on acceptance and digestibility in domestic cats.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2026Article
- The insects as food and feed industry needs integrative solutions.Current research in insect science · 2026Review
- Organic Edible Insects-What Would It Take?Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Review
- Cross-Cultural Analysis of Consumers' Avoidance of Snack Food Ingredients Across 13 Countries Using Check-All-That-Apply (CATA) Method.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Chains of Commerce: A Comprehensive Review of Animal Welfare Impacts in the International Wildlife Trade.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Review
- Nutritional Quality, Safety and Environmental Benefits of Alternative Protein Sources-An Overview.Nutrients · 2025Review
- Factors Influencing the Intention to Eat Insects as an Alternative Protein Source: A Sample from Turkey.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- A First Step Towards Black Soldier Fly Larvae (Diptera: Stratiomyidae) Welfare by Considering Dietary Regimes (Part I).Insects · 2024Article
- A Model for Consumer Acceptance of Insect-Based Dog Foods among Adult UK Dog Owners.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Near and Dear? If animal welfare concepts do not apply to species at a great phylogenetic distance from humans, what concepts might serve as alternatives?Animal welfare (South Mimms, England) · 2024Review
- Grinding as a slaughter method for farmed black soldier fly (Animal welfare (South Mimms, England) · 2024Article
- Edible Insects: A New Sustainable Nutritional Resource Worth Promoting.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Bioactive Peptides Derived from Edible Insects: Effects on Human Health and Possible Applications in Dentistry.Nutrients · 2023Review
- Assessing the Welfare of Captive Group-Housed Cockroaches,Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Insects and Public Health: An Overview.Insects · 2023Article
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Abstract
A growing number of studies underline consumers' concerns about the importance of animal welfare as a general concept for consumers' purchase decisions. In particular, consumers perceive animal husbandry to be one of the most important aspects of animal welfare. Since intensive livestock production is criticized across society, the acceptance of current intensive production systems of edible insects is an issue of investigation. Criteria of insect welfare might differ from vertebrate welfare. One might argue that it is difficult to define standards for insect welfare due to their large diversity in living environments and feed requirements. In addition, it is debated whether insects are conscious and suffer from pain. It has been demanded to rear insects preferably under natural living conditions and some researchers proposed to consider them as sentient beings. Basic welfare and ethical aspects of insects as food and feed include species-specific mass rearing conditions and euthanasia, i.e., killing procedures. Consumers' opinions and concerns regarding this issue have hardly been considered so far. In this paper, the animal welfare of prevalent livestock is defined and outlined, and relevant criteria are transferred to insect welfare. Different ways consumers might arrive at an animal welfare understanding are discussed, along with an overview of the few consumer studies on insect welfare. Furthermore, we consider how insects are presented in the public discourse and infer how this might be relevant to consumers' perceptions of insect welfare.
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