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Consumer attitudes toward farm animal welfare in Croatia: A review

In the past decades, farm animal production systems have rapidly changed, led by market demands for higher product quality and safety, better animal welfare, environmental protection and sustainability. Due to outbreaks of many food-borne diseases, food fraud and genetically modified food, greater attention is being paid to food quality and safety on the market, and consumers are ever more interested in the manner and procedures of food production. They want to know about the origin of food they buy and whether the animals were raised and treated in accordance with welfare standards. While poor animal welfare directly reduces product quality, consumer perception of animal welfare affects it indirectly by equating good animal welfare standards with good food quality standards. To date, only few studies examined the attitudes of Croatian consumers towards the issues related to animal welfare. The objective of this literature review was to provide and discuss the results of surveys conducted so far on consumers in Croatia about their perception of farm animal welfare and its importance for food production.

Consumer, Animal welfare, Croatia, Review

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