. 2020 Jul 17;10(7):1220. doi: 10.3390/ani10071220

Table 4.

The attitudes of Eastern European consumers towards castration and the effect of demographics ¹.

		Gender		Age			Education ²			Growing Place		Economic Situation ³
	Overall	Men	Women	<36	36–55	>55	Elem.	High	Univ.	Urban	Rural	Dif.	Mid.	Wea.
Treating correctly animals for human consumption is …	5.9	5.8 ^b	5.9 ^a	5.9 ^c	5.7 ^b	6.0 ^a	5.7 ^b	5.9 ^a	5.9 ^a	6.0 ^b	5.7 ^a	5.4 ^b	6.0 ^a	6.0 ^a
(1)-Bad; (4)-Neither bad nor good; (7)-Good
Treating correctly the animals that we consume is…	4.3	4.3	4.3	4.3	4.3	4.3	4.1	4.2	4.5	4.3	4.4	4.4 ^a	4.4 ^a	4.1 ^b
(1)-Easy; (4)-Neither easy nor difficult; (7)-Difficult
To mistreat the animals we consume is …	2.1	2.2	2.1	2.1 ^b	2.2 ^a	2.1 ^b	2.2	2.1	2.1	2.2	2.1	2.2 ^a	2.0 ^b	2.1 ^ab
(1)-Harmful; (4)-Neither harmful nor beneficial; (7)-Beneficial
Humane treatment of animals for human consumption is …	2.5	2.6 ^a	2.4 ^b	2.7 ^a	2.5 ^b	2.3 ^c	2.4 ^b	2.6 ^a	2.4 ^b	2.4 ^b	2.7 ^a	2.9 ^a	2.4 ^b	2.5 ^b
(1)-Natural; (4)-Neither natural nor artificial; (7)-Artificial

^{1 a,b} Items in the same row and within the same socio-demographic variable with different letters are significantly different at the level of 5%. ² Elementary, High school, University; ³ Difficult, Mid class, Wealthy.