Faculty of Veterinary, Department of Agriculture and Agricultural Economics, University of Zaragoza, Miguel Servet 177, 50013 Zaragoza, Spain.
Meat Sci. 2010 May;85(1):167-73. doi: 10.1016/j.meatsci.2009.12.021. Epub 2009 Dec 23.
As in other products, quality labels that designate the origin of lamb meat are increasingly used by consumers as a cue for inferring the quality of the meat. The aim of the present paper is to identify those factors that most affect the purchase of lamb with an origin quality label. For this purpose a total of 371 questionnaires were carried out in the region of Aragón located in the north east of Spain. This region produces 48.5% of the total amount of lamb meat with a Spanish protected geographical indication, whilst it also has the country's greatest per capita consumption (6.8 kg/person/year). To identify the most determining factors a logistic regression analysis was performed between three groups of buyers, characterised by their degree of loyalty towards purchasing origin quality-labelled lamb. The results show that those buyers who are less loyal to the label pay less attention to the origin of the meat when forming quality expectations at the time of purchase, whilst these are the buyers that place greatest importance on animal feeding as an aspect affecting the final quality of lamb meat. The buyers that are very loyal to the quality label associate this label with a product that offers greater guarantees and is healthier. Lamb meat buyers with medium loyalty to quality labels, consider quality-labelled lamb meat has better intrinsic attributes.
与其他产品一样,越来越多的消费者将标明羊肉产地的质量标签作为推断肉类质量的线索。本文的目的是确定影响购买具有产地质量标签的羊肉的主要因素。为此,在西班牙东北部的阿拉贡地区进行了总共 371 份问卷调查。该地区生产了西班牙受保护地理标志的 48.5%的羊肉总量,同时也是人均消费量最高的地区(6.8 公斤/人/年)。为了确定最具决定性的因素,对三组购买者进行了逻辑回归分析,这些购买者的特征是他们对购买产地质量标签羊肉的忠诚度不同。结果表明,那些对标签不太忠诚的购买者在购买时形成质量期望时,对肉类的产地不太关注,而这些购买者则更加重视动物饲养,因为这是影响羊肉最终质量的一个方面。对质量标签非常忠诚的购买者将该标签与提供更大保证和更健康的产品联系起来。对质量标签中度忠诚的羊肉购买者认为质量标签的羊肉具有更好的内在属性。