Halkier Bente, Lund Thomas Bøker
Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Appetite. 2023 Apr 1;183:106487. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2023.106487. Epub 2023 Feb 4.
Exploring everyday life dynamics in meat reduction - a cluster analysis of flexitarians in Denmark. Flexitarians are attracting increasing attention in the research on meat reduction. But there has been limited focus on comprehensive understandings of a broader range of dynamics that can work as barriers and facilitators for meat reduction. In this article, we use social practice theory (SPT) as a comprehensive approach to barriers and facilitators in meat reduction in everyday life. We present an analysis of data from a representative Danish cross-sectional survey. We show, first, that Danish flexitarians can be divided into four distinct clusters (what we will refer to as classes) in accordance with combinations of everyday facilitators and barriers. Second, we show that the prevalence of these classes varies considerably depending on how long people have been flexitarians. We argue that the patterns in this variation indicate that over time people transition to other classes where barriers to plant-rich eating become less significant, and routinization emerges in different ways. Finally, third, we show that flexitarians do report eating less meat than consumers who label themselves as eating meat with no restrictions. But we also highlight that the difference is relatively modest. Indeed, meat intake is still quite common even in classes where routinization is highest. Throughout the paper, we discuss similarities and differences between the SPT framework and another recent framework, the COM-B model, that also provides a comprehensive approach to the understanding of behavioural change.
探索减少肉类消费中的日常生活动态——丹麦弹性素食者的聚类分析。弹性素食者在减少肉类消费的研究中越来越受到关注。但对于更广泛的动态因素的全面理解却关注有限，这些动态因素既可能成为减少肉类消费的障碍，也可能起到促进作用。在本文中，我们运用社会实践理论（SPT）作为一种全面的方法来研究日常生活中减少肉类消费的障碍和促进因素。我们展示了对丹麦一项具有代表性的横断面调查数据的分析。首先，我们发现丹麦的弹性素食者可以根据日常促进因素和障碍的组合分为四个不同的类别（我们将其称为类）。其次，我们表明这些类别的流行程度因人们成为弹性素食者的时间长短而有很大差异。我们认为这种变化模式表明，随着时间的推移，人们会过渡到其他类别，在这些类别中，富含植物性食物饮食的障碍变得不那么重要，并且以不同方式出现了常规化。最后，第三，我们表明弹性素食者确实报告说他们的肉类摄入量比那些自称无限制食用肉类的消费者要少。但我们也强调这种差异相对较小。事实上，即使在常规化程度最高的类别中，肉类摄入仍然相当普遍。在整篇论文中，我们讨论了SPT框架与另一个最近的框架COM - B模型之间的异同，COM - B模型也为理解行为变化提供了一种全面的方法。
