producers and consumers’ price behavior were analyzed in chicken meat market in fars province. monthly average producers and consumers prices from june 1997 to july 2008 were taken into account. changes in the producer and consumer prices indicated that the prices follow an increasing trend with much fluctuations. marketing margin has an increasing trend of violent fluctuations. the result of g...

Cultured meat is an emerging food innovation that promises to be a more sustainable alternative conventional meat. However, despite its potential health, environmental and animal welfare benefits, research suggests consumer acceptance of cultured not assured. Across two pre-registered experimental studies (N = 456), this article investigates the extent which different credence characteristics, ...

In recent years, consumer concerns on environmental and health issues related to food products have increased and, as a result, the demand for organically grown production has grown. Higher costs of production and retailer margins generate a gap between real prices and those that consumers are willing to pay for organic food. In this article, consumer willingness to pay for organic food in two ...

Healthier meat products have a major economic potential and are attracting considerable research media attention to meet the growing complex consumer demand. Whether this will be realized at what speed is contingent on consumers’ acceptance of these novel foods. This study uses cross-cultural context co-create new healthier products, while mapping conditions leading product (vs. rejection). Res...

The authenticity of food is currently a major issue for researchers, consumers, industries and policy markers at all levels of the production process. Particularly in the meat industry, products from game animals are susceptible targets for fraudulent labeling due to the economic profit that results from selling cheaper meat as meat from more profitable and desirable species. A part from meat s...

Pork quality is important both to the meat processing industry and consumers' purchasing attitude. Copy number variation (CNV) is a burgeoning kind of variants that may influence meat quality. In this study, a genome-wide association study (GWAS) was performed between CNVs and meat quality traits in swine. After false discovery rate (FDR) correction, a total of 8 CNVs on 6 chromosomes were iden...

The report reviews studies on the costs incurred by companies in complying with food safety regulation across meat, leafy greens, almond and orange industries. The cost comparison is based on changes in average costs from surveys of companies affected by government regulations and by voluntary industry programs. The results show that the compliance costs varied across companies of different siz...

For decades, research in muscle biology has been focused on enlarging skeletal muscle mass, which increases the quantity of meat production. It has been well established that myogenic cells are derived from multipotent mesenychmal stem cells (MSC). During the embryonic and fetal stages, muscle fibers are formed through the fusion of myogenic cells; enhancing the proliferation and myogenic diffe...