Welcome to the (label) jungle? Analyzing how consumers deal with intra-sustainability label trade-offs on food

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Welcome to the (label) jungle? Analyzing how consumers deal with intra-sustainability label trade-offs on food. / Isabel Sonntag, Winnie; Lemken, Dominic; Spiller, Achim et al.
in: Food Quality and Preference, Jahrgang 104, 104746, 03.2023.

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Isabel Sonntag W, Lemken D, Spiller A, Schulze M. Welcome to the (label) jungle? Analyzing how consumers deal with intra-sustainability label trade-offs on food. Food Quality and Preference. 2023 Mär;104:104746. doi: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2022.104746

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abstract = "Sustainability labels provide consumers with information about the production process, but the number of specialized labels is increasing rapidly. Different label combinations on one product can lead to trade-offs for consumers since sustainability dimensions, e.g., animal welfare and climate impact, may conflict. Consumers may face a combination of sustainability labels where not all characteristics are positive. The likelihood of a combination of positive and negative labels is particularly high when certain labels become mandatory. It is unclear how this influences the decision-making of consumers. This study analyzes the effect of different multi-level sustainability labels: animal welfare label, climate label, and a binary label (organic), and a nutritional label: the Nutri-Score on two food products. We measured the willingness to pay (WTP) for chicken breast and whole milk for different label combinations using a discrete choice experiment with 985 German consumers. Our results provide first indications that the presence of a sustainability label does not diminish the marginal utility of another sustainability label and that the effects of a negative label on the WTP cannot be compensated by a positive label. Consumers can handle two different types of labels at the same time and seem to be able to cope even with contradictory information in a trade-off situation between different sustainability dimensions. For manufacturers, this means that they should avoid scoring negatively on any sustainability dimension.",
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