Table 3.

The respondents’ cognition of lean meat essence, animal welfare, and traceability.

Characteristics	Items	Number of Samples	Percent (%)
The incident of lean meat essence (known or not)	Yes	268	84.81
	No	48	15.19
Necessity of a lean meat essence test on pork	Very necessary	157	49.68
	Necessary	122	38.61
	Dispensable	23	7.28
	Not necessary	11	3.48
	Not necessary at all	3	0.95
Levels of the understanding of the pork traceability system	Excellent	2	0.63
	Good	37	11.71
	Average	84	26.58
	Below average	146	46.20
	No understanding	47	14.88
Potential of the pork traceability system to decrease the risk of pork safety	Definitely	25	7.91
	Possibly	171	54.11
	Not sure	100	31.65
	Not significantly	15	4.75
	Not at all	5	1.58
Levels of understanding of animal welfare	Excellent	5	1.58
	Good	26	8.23
	Average	74	23.42
	Below average	164	51.90
	No understanding	47	14.87
Influence of the promotion of animal welfare on pork quality and safety	Extremely helpful	36	11.39
	Helpful to some extent	216	68.35
	Not sure	55	17.41
	Not helpful	8	2.53
	Useless	1	0.32