Changing Food Consumption Behaviors

Lowe, Ben; Fraser, Iain; Souza-Monteiro, Diogo

doi:10.1002/mar.20793

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“…Demographics of research participantsIn line with other research (such asGarnett et al 2015;Lowe, Fraser and de Souza-Monteiro 2015), this study confirmed that the current eating patterns of research participants were influenced by a number of social factors. Pete indicated that healthy eating campaigns had some impact on his food practices and eating habits: Eating a day….Everybody's aware of these things.…”

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“Things like tinned burgers and tinned macaroni, I ate as a kid - I would not look at it twice!” Understanding changing eating practices across the lifecourse

McKenzie

Watts

2019

Food, Culture & Society

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There is a common belief that eating patterns acquired during childhood shape them throughout adulthood. However, studies reveal that they can change. This paper explores this contradiction based on interviews with thirty-one people in 2 Scotland. Viewing eating as a social practice, we adopt the lifecourse approach to demonstrate that there is evidence of both continuity and change in eating patterns over time. Leder's (1990) concept of dys-appearance reveals why eating patterns are more likely to be revised and when these changes may be reflexively informed by dietary guidelines. This paper reveals that eating patterns acquired in childhood can shape them throughout the lifecourse, and, be resistant to attempts by others to change them. However, eating patterns may be more likely to change if the impetus for change originates within the individual and revisions are more likely to be informed by dietary guidelines when individuals view their eating patterns as problematic. Thus, this paper not only provides insight into the contradiction highlighted above, but also, demonstrates the utility of viewing eating patterns as social practice whilst illustrating the importance of individual agency in the reproduction of eating patterns, contributes to the sociology of the lifecourse and extends the application of dys-appearance.

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“Things like tinned burgers and tinned macaroni, I ate as a kid - I would not look at it twice!” Understanding changing eating practices across the lifecourse

McKenzie

Watts

2019

Food, Culture & Society

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“…It is unlikely to decline in the near future and growing up in a saturated marketing environment is considered to be the norm (Montgomery & Chester, ). Marketers’ more extended outreach to children, which started to occur since the 1990s (Schor, ) and increasing childhood obesity rates (Gupta, Goel, Shah, & Misra, ; Lobstein, Baur, & Uauy, ) have sparked a debate about the appropriateness of advertising to children (Moses & Baldwin, ), highlighting the importance of healthier behaviors among young consumers (Lowe, Fraser, & Souza‐Monteiro, ). Over time, this debate has resulted in a more stringent regulation of advertising in a few countries (Galbraith‐Emami & Lobstein, ) and the introduction of industry self‐regulation codes in others (Hingle, Castonguay, Ambuel, Smith, & Kunkel, ; Roberts, Pettigrew, Chapman, Miller, & Quester, ).…”

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Perceived informative intention in advertising and its attenuating effect on persuasion attribution among children

Tarabashkina

Quester

Tarabashkina

2018

Psychology and Marketing

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Although substantial research has been dedicated to children's understanding of advertising, the role of more diverse marketing purposes (attention capturing, product liking, and informative intentions) still has not been examined in relation to the activation of persuasion attribution among young consumers. Previous research has focused on one perceived advertising intention at a time, disregarding the complex nature of advertisements' purposes and how these different perceived intentions relate to persuasion attribution. It is still unclear whether viewing advertising as a source of information reduces persuasion attribution and mitigates the attention capturing and product liking evaluations when children are exposed to commercial messages. This study shows that children's comprehension of attention capturing and product liking intentions relate to higher persuasion attribution. However, perceiving advertisements as a source of information attenuates the effects of product liking and attention capturing intentions on persuasion attribution in older children (10-11 and 12-13 years) who were expected to be more critical of advertising. No such effects were observed among younger children (8-9 years). The study highlights that advertisements are evaluated in a more complex manner by children than has been previously thought. K E Y W O R D Sadvertising, attention capturing intention, children, informative intention, persuasion attribution, product liking intention

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“…Although horsemeat is not as high in protein as insects, for instance, and thus cannot be seen as a sole solution for replacing beef and pork, the issue is not insignificant from the viewpoint of sustainable eating and avoiding food waste. If horsemeat consumption is wanted to be increased, we need also aggregate-level policies aiming at specific social groups of people with common needs to be able to target the communication effectively (Lowe et al, 2015).…”

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A semiotic analysis on cultural meanings of eating horsemeat

Leipämaa‐Leskinen

Syrjälä

Jaskari

2018

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Purpose Drawing on food consumption research and human-animal studies, this paper aims to explore how the meanings related to a living horse may be transferred to those of horsemeat. This is accomplished by constructing a nuanced understanding of how different semantic meaning categories of accepting/avoiding consuming horsemeat relate to each other. Design/methodology/approach The current data are collected from various sources of media discussions, including online news, online discussion forums, blog postings and printed articles, generated in Finland after the year 2013. The data are analysed applying Greimas’ (1987) semiotic square to open up the semantic meaning categories appearing in the media discussions. Findings The semiotic square shows that the meanings of horsemeat arise between the binary oppositions of human-like and animal-like. In this structure, the category of human-like makes eating horsemeat impossible, whereas the category of animal-like makes horsemeat good to eat. The main categories are completed and contrasted by the categories of not human-like and not animal-like. They represent horsemeat as an acceptable food, but only after certain justifications. Research limitations/implications The data are based on Finnish media texts, and therefore, the identified categories are interpreted in this specific cultural context. Originality/value The current semiotic analysis adds to the existing food consumption research by shedding light on the cultural barriers that make something edible or inedible. By so doing, the findings present a more nuanced and dynamic understanding of the horse as a special kind of meat animal and the justifications for eating horsemeat. Consequently, the findings offer new insights concerning changing food consumption behaviours into a more sustainable direction, pointing out the hidden meanings that influence this process.

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Changing Food Consumption Behaviors

Cited by 18 publications

References 24 publications

“Things like tinned burgers and tinned macaroni, I ate as a kid - I would not look at it twice!” Understanding changing eating practices across the lifecourse

“Things like tinned burgers and tinned macaroni, I ate as a kid - I would not look at it twice!” Understanding changing eating practices across the lifecourse

Perceived informative intention in advertising and its attenuating effect on persuasion attribution among children

A semiotic analysis on cultural meanings of eating horsemeat

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