Fear of animal foods: A century of zoonotics

Atkins, Peter

doi:10.1016/j.appet.2008.02.006

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“…As Atkins (2008) shows, negative consumer reactions to zoonotic food hazards have a long and notable history in the UK, and similar impacts have been shown across Europe and indeed globally (Bánáti, 2011). Mullan (2019) cautions that formal international recognition of MAP as a human pathogen is more likely than not, and this line of argument is increasingly evident in the scientific literature, and sometimes without equivocation (e.g.…”

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"They've got to be testing and doing something about it": Farmer and veterinarian views on drivers for Johne’s disease control in dairy herds in England

Robinson

2020

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

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There needs to be an understanding of the reasons why key stakeholders engage in disease control efforts if disease is to be successfully and sustainably controlled. It is increasingly recognised within veterinary epidemiology and policy making in animal health that these 'people factors' are important influences on the success or otherwise of animal disease control programmes. Research methodologies adopted from the social sciences offer ways to understand this important dimension, through investigating the attitudes and opinions of the key actors involved. The study reported in this paper, based on qualitative interview research, investigates the views of dairy farmers and cattle veterinarians on the drivers and incentives for controlling Johne's disease in English dairy herds. Twenty semi-structured interviews involving 17 dairy farmers and seven veterinarians were conducted in two dairyintensive regions of England. The findings demonstrate the varied influences of veterinary advice and encouragement; appreciation of the economic cost of the disease at herd level; a voluntary national control plan; and fear of a future consumer food scare as the main reasons to engage in Johne's disease control on dairy farms. The study demonstrates how a combination of a voluntary industry-led control scheme, compulsory participation through retailer and processor contractual requirements, and threats of reputational harm and market loss have strongly influenced farmer and veterinary behaviour in relation to Johne's control without statutory involvement. The findings illustrate the importance of considering the political economy and societal impact of animal disease.

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"They've got to be testing and doing something about it": Farmer and veterinarian views on drivers for Johne’s disease control in dairy herds in England

Robinson

2020

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

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“…Zoonotic disease outbreaks (ZDOs) can lead to public health scares (PHSs) [7]. With the rapid development of information and communication technology (ICT), information on disease epidemics spreads much faster in the Internet era than before.…”

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Disease Outbreak, Health Scare, and Distance Decay: Evidence from HPAI Shocks in Chinese Meat Sector

Duan

Tao

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Background: During zoonotic disease shocks (ZDSs), zoonotic disease outbreaks (ZDOs) can induce public health scares (PHSs), causing meat price risks (MPRs). Nevertheless, spatial spillovers of zoonotic disease shocks in meat markets remain unclear. We explore how zoonotic disease outbreaks and public health scares locally and spatially spill over to meat price risks, and whether spatial spillovers of public health scares decay with distance. Methods: (i) We construct a long panel covering 30 provinces and 121 months, using highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) epidemics as exogenous shocks in Chinese meat sector. (ii) We decompose zoonotic disease shocks into zoonotic disease outbreaks (objective incident) and public health scares (subjective information) and examine their spillovers to meat price risks. (iii) We identify distance-decaying spatial spillovers of public health scares, by running our dynamic SAR models 147 times, from 80 km to 3000 km with 20 km as incremental value, in a setting with risk-level heterogeneity. Results: (i) Zoonotic disease outbreaks themselves only cause local and neighboring meat price risks for high-risk meat, not for low-risk or substitute meat. (ii) Public health scares exacerbate local and neighboring meat price risks for high-risk and low-risk meat, and local meat price risks for substitute meat. (iii) Spatial spillovers of public health scares are distance-decaying and U-shaped, with four spatial attenuation boundaries, and distance turning point is shorter for high-risk meat (500 km) than for low-risk meat (800 km). Conclusions: We complement the literature by arguing that health scares induced by disease outbreaks negatively spill over to meat prices, with U-shaped distance-decaying spatial effects. This suggests low interregional spatial market integration in meat products, due to distance decay of nonstandardized information and local government control effects, across provincial boundaries. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to document nonmonotonic distance decay of health scare effects on food prices, previously not found by the literature.

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“…The second health challenge of milk consumption was the risk of catching the zoonotic disease, bovine tuberculosis (Atkins, 1992(Atkins, , 2000a(Atkins, , 2008Waddington, 2005). This is caused by a mycobacterium that is able to thrive in the bodies of both cattle and humans.…”

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The long genealogy of quality in the British drinking-milk sector

Atkins¹

2017

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JEL CODES: I18, L66, N53, N54. T hroughout most of the last 150 years milk in Britain has been an example of modernity in food production. It became a mass-produced, industrial product, with high volume, rapid turnover, but limited choice. To modify HenryFord's humorous dictum, you could have any kind of milk you wanted as long as it was white and about 3% fat (Ford, 1923: 72 The long genealogy of quality in the British drinking-milk sector

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Fear of animal foods: A century of zoonotics

Cited by 13 publications

References 10 publications

"They've got to be testing and doing something about it": Farmer and veterinarian views on drivers for Johne’s disease control in dairy herds in England

"They've got to be testing and doing something about it": Farmer and veterinarian views on drivers for Johne’s disease control in dairy herds in England

Disease Outbreak, Health Scare, and Distance Decay: Evidence from HPAI Shocks in Chinese Meat Sector

The long genealogy of quality in the British drinking-milk sector

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