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The Sustainability of Seafood Products in the Opinions of Italian Consumers of Generation Z
This study aims to explore whether members of Generation Z have sensitivity and awareness about environmental issues related to seafood production and consumption, their beliefs on how to make more sustainable the future provisioning of seafood, their consumption frequency, and, finally, whether dif...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10670485/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38002105 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/foods12224047 |
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author | Forleo, Maria Bonaventura Bredice, Marilena |
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description | This study aims to explore whether members of Generation Z have sensitivity and awareness about environmental issues related to seafood production and consumption, their beliefs on how to make more sustainable the future provisioning of seafood, their consumption frequency, and, finally, whether different profiles and groups of people could be detected. A survey was implemented with 778 Italian students attending secondary schools. Descriptive statistics, testing, and cluster analyses were applied. Results provide the sustainability profile of five groups, of which three are aligned with SDGs 12 and 14, but the other groups, comprising almost half of the sample, are insensitive, unaware, or irresolute about the sustainability of seafood production and consumption. Overall, people’s environmental consciousness does not appear to be strongly related to the frequency of consumption of sustainable seafood species. Regarding the solutions for improving the sustainability of future seafood production, young respondents underlined the catching and raising of novel, discarded, not exploited, or marginally exploited seafood species. People declared a high knowledge of the nutritional and safety implications of seafood. This study is one of the few that explore issues specifically related to the profiles of Generation Z and young people’s approach toward sustainable seafood production and consumption. |
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spelling | pubmed-106704852023-11-07 The Sustainability of Seafood Products in the Opinions of Italian Consumers of Generation Z Forleo, Maria Bonaventura Bredice, Marilena Foods Article This study aims to explore whether members of Generation Z have sensitivity and awareness about environmental issues related to seafood production and consumption, their beliefs on how to make more sustainable the future provisioning of seafood, their consumption frequency, and, finally, whether different profiles and groups of people could be detected. A survey was implemented with 778 Italian students attending secondary schools. Descriptive statistics, testing, and cluster analyses were applied. Results provide the sustainability profile of five groups, of which three are aligned with SDGs 12 and 14, but the other groups, comprising almost half of the sample, are insensitive, unaware, or irresolute about the sustainability of seafood production and consumption. Overall, people’s environmental consciousness does not appear to be strongly related to the frequency of consumption of sustainable seafood species. Regarding the solutions for improving the sustainability of future seafood production, young respondents underlined the catching and raising of novel, discarded, not exploited, or marginally exploited seafood species. People declared a high knowledge of the nutritional and safety implications of seafood. This study is one of the few that explore issues specifically related to the profiles of Generation Z and young people’s approach toward sustainable seafood production and consumption. MDPI 2023-11-07 /pmc/articles/PMC10670485/ /pubmed/38002105 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/foods12224047 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Forleo, Maria Bonaventura Bredice, Marilena The Sustainability of Seafood Products in the Opinions of Italian Consumers of Generation Z |
title | The Sustainability of Seafood Products in the Opinions of Italian Consumers of Generation Z |
title_full | The Sustainability of Seafood Products in the Opinions of Italian Consumers of Generation Z |
title_fullStr | The Sustainability of Seafood Products in the Opinions of Italian Consumers of Generation Z |
title_full_unstemmed | The Sustainability of Seafood Products in the Opinions of Italian Consumers of Generation Z |
title_short | The Sustainability of Seafood Products in the Opinions of Italian Consumers of Generation Z |
title_sort | sustainability of seafood products in the opinions of italian consumers of generation z |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10670485/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38002105 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/foods12224047 |
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