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Why Are Fewer Grocery Shoppers Buying Meat? Declining
Grocery Sales, Prices, and Cultural Change
Observational
Causal Inference
Event Studies
Causal Panel Data
Grocery purchases (Nielsen etc) including meat and PBM
Working paper/mimeo, not published
73%
How do plant-based products substitute for animal products (welfare footprint)?
Assessing Cross-Price Effects of Meat Alternatives on Beef, Pork, and Chicken Retail Demand in 2022
(G-)AIDS model
Observational
Grocery purchases (Nielsen etc) including meat and PBM
70%
How do plant-based products substitute for animal products (welfare footprint)?
Plant-Based versus Conventional Meat in Food Away From Home Settings: Substitution, Complementarity, and Market Impacts
Basket-based DCE
Hypothetical food basket choice
65%
How do plant-based products substitute for animal products (welfare footprint)?
Consumer spending patterns for plant-based meat alternatives
Event Studies
Linear probability model
Grocery purchases (Nielsen etc) including meat and PBM
60%
How do plant-based products substitute for animal products (welfare footprint)?
Meet the Meatless: Demand for New Generation Plant-Based Meat Alternatives
AIDS
Grocery purchases (Nielsen etc) including meat and PBM
57%
How do plant-based products substitute for animal products (welfare footprint)?
Substitution patterns and price response for plant-based meat alternatives
Survey Design/Surveys
Hypothetical choice experiment
Hypothetical 'burger' choice
40%
How do plant-based products substitute for animal products (welfare footprint)?
Are all meats substitutes? A basket‐and‐expenditure‐based approach.
Hypothetical choice experiment
Hypothetical food basket choice
40%
How do plant-based products substitute for animal products (welfare footprint)?
Price-, Taste-, and Convenience-Competitive Plant-Based Meat Would Not Currently Replace Meat (~EAF post)
Literature synthesis
Discussion and synthesis
20%
How do plant-based products substitute for animal products (welfare footprint)?
Does the advertising of plant-based burgers attract meat consumers?
Linear probability model
Grocery purchases (Nielsen etc) including meat and PBM
15%
How do plant-based products substitute for animal products (welfare footprint)?
Are Plant-Based Analogues Replacing Cow’s Milk in the American Diet?
Time-Series
Grocery purchase including PBM and meat-related products
published, decent journal
4/22/2025
How do plant-based products substitute for animal products (welfare footprint)?
Demand for Plant-Based Meat Alternatives and the Role of Habit Formation and Variety Seeking
Multivariate logit
Grocery purchases (Nielsen etc) including meat and PBM
How do plant-based products substitute for animal products (welfare footprint)?
Most plant-based meat alternative buyers also buy meat: an analysis of household demographics, habit formation, and buying behavior among meat alternative buyers
Descriptive
Grocery purchases (Nielsen etc) including meat and PBM
How do plant-based products substitute for animal products (welfare footprint)?
Estimating the effect of moving meat-free products to the meat aisle on sales of meat and meat-free products: A non-randomised controlled intervention study in a large UK supermarket chain
RCTs/Field Experiments
Grocery purchases (Nielsen etc) including meat and PBM
How do plant-based products substitute for animal products (welfare footprint)?
Addressing concerns about sustainability and animal welfare: Investigating consumers' adoption and behavioral intention towards plant‐based eggs
Hypothetical choice experiment
Purchase intentions
How do plant-based products substitute for animal products (welfare footprint)?
Price elasticities of meat, fish and plant-based meat substitutes: evidence from store-level Dutch supermarket scanner data
QAIDS
Grocery purchases (Nielsen etc) including meat and PBM
How do plant-based products substitute for animal products (welfare footprint)?
Market potential of new plant-based protein alternatives: Insights from four US consumer experiments
Hypothetical choice experiment
Hypothetical food basket choice
How do plant-based products substitute for animal products (welfare footprint)?
Adjusting for Scale-Use Heterogeneity in Self-Reported Well-Being
Microeconomic theory
Survey Design/Surveys
Survey Experiments
Proof of concept study
Working paper/mimeo; not published in a peer-reviewed journal
12/1/2023
DALY/WELLBY interconvertibility
Measuring Well-being/WELLBY reliability
The wellbeing cost-effectiveness of StrongMinds and Friendship Bench: Combining a systematic review and meta-analysis with charity-related data
Working paper/mimeo; not published in a peer-reviewed journal
DALY/WELLBY interconvertibility
Measuring Well-being/WELLBY reliability
Forecasts estimate limited cultured meat production through 2050 (EA forum post)
Forecasting
Cultured meat production volume
Web page/informal post
Cell-cultured meat cost and price
All Crises Are Unhappy in Their Own Way: The Role of Societal Instability in Shaping the Past
Working paper/mimeo, not published
Does inequality increase civil war/unrest in the event of an environmental shock?
Cultured meat: A comparison of techno-economic analyses
Systematic Review
Price/cost of Cultured Meat
Web page/informal post
Cell-cultured meat cost and price
All Crises Are Unhappy in Their Own Way: The Role of Societal Instability in Shaping the Past
Working paper/mimeo, not published
Does inequality increase civil war/unrest in the event of an environmental shock?
The Effects of Exposure to Information about Animal Welfare Reforms on Animal Farming Opposition: A Randomized Experiment
Effects of improving welfare standards on attitudes towards animal welfare/factory farming/legislation?
Impact Of Corporate Commitments On Public Attitudes
Effects of improving welfare standards on attitudes towards animal welfare/factory farming/legislation?
The wellbeing cost-effectiveness of StrongMinds and Friendship Bench: Combining a systematic review and meta-analysis with charity-related data
Working paper/mimeo; not published in a peer-reviewed journal
DALY/WELLBY interconvertibility
Measuring Well-being/WELLBY reliability
A happy probability about happiness (and other) scales: an exploration and tentative defence of the cardinality assumption.
Discussion and synthesis
DALY/WELLBY interconvertibility
The WELLBY: a new measure of social value and progress
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Welfare economics
Impact Evaluation
DALY/WELLBY interconvertibility
Measuring Well-being/WELLBY reliability
A Handbook for Wellbeing Policy-Making: History, Theory, Measurements, Implementation and Examples (Chapter 4)
DALY/WELLBY interconvertibility
Measuring Well-being/WELLBY reliability
Wellbeing discussion paper: monetisation of life satisfaction effect sizes
DALY/WELLBY interconvertibility
Measuring Well-being/WELLBY reliability
How Threatening Are Transformations of Happiness Scales to Subjective Wellbeing Research?
Measuring Well-being/WELLBY reliability
Techno-economic modeling and assessment of cultivated meat: Impact of production bioreactor scale
Techno-economic analysis/BOTEC
Price/cost of Cultured Meat
Cell-cultured meat cost and price
Scale-up economics for cultured meat
Techno-economic analysis/BOTEC
Price/cost of Cultured Meat
Cell-cultured meat cost and price
How much will large-scale production of cell-cultured meat cost?
Techno-economic analysis/BOTEC
Price/cost of Cultured Meat
Cell-cultured meat cost and price
A scoping review of cultivated meat techno-economic analyses to inform future research directions for scaled-up manufacturing
Systematic Review
Cultured meat production volume
Cell-cultured meat cost and price
Empirical economic analysis shows cost-effective continuous manufacturing of cultivated chicken using animal-free medium
Laboratory Experiments
Techno-economic analysis/BOTEC
Price/cost of Cultured Meat
Cell-cultured meat cost and price
Preliminary Techno-Economic Assessment of Animal Cell-Based Meat
Techno-economic analysis/BOTEC
Price/cost of Cultured Meat
Cell-cultured meat cost and price
TEA of cultivated meat. Future projections for different scenarios
Techno-economic analysis/BOTEC
Price/cost of Cultured Meat
Cell-cultured meat cost and price
Quality adjusted life years based on health and consumption: A summary wellbeing measure for cross‐sectoral economic evaluation
DALY/WELLBY interconvertibility
When to release the lockdown: A wellbeing framework for analysing costs and benefits
DALY/WELLBY interconvertibility
The value of health - Empirical issues when estimating the monetary value of a QALY based on well-being data
IVs
DALY/WELLBY interconvertibility
Towards cost-effective and sustainable media formulations for cellular agriculture
Price/cost of Cultured Meat
Cell-cultured meat cost and price
Anticipated growth factor and recombinant protein costs and volumes necessary for cost-competitive cultivated meat
Price/cost of Cultured Meat
Cell-cultured meat cost and price
Exploring cost reduction strategies for serum free media development
Systematic Review
Price/cost of Cultured Meat
Cell-cultured meat cost and price
A Beefy-R culture medium: Replacing albumin with rapeseed protein isolates
Price/cost of Cultured Meat
Cell-cultured meat cost and price
Simple and effective serum-free medium for sustained expansion of bovine satellite cells for cell cultured meat
Laboratory Experiments
Price/cost of Cultured Meat
Cell-cultured meat cost and price
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