Table 2.
Responses about societal challenges related to the meat industry and the perceptions about artificial meat (4666 responses).
| A. Question–Societal Challenges | Response (1 Much Less–5 Much More) | ||||||
| 1 1 | 2 2 | 3 3 | 4 4 | 5 5 | Mean | SD | |
| Do you think the conventional meat industry causes ethical problems? | 748 6 (16.0) 7 |
594 (12.7) |
1181 (25.3) |
1110 (23.6) |
1033 (23.8) |
3.23 | 1.36 |
| Do you think the conventional meat industry causes environmental problems? | 385 (8.3) |
479 (10.3) |
1469 (31.5) |
1337 (28.7) |
996 (21.3) |
3.45 | 1.17 |
| Do you think reducing meat consumption could be a good solution to resolve above problems? | 551 (11.8) |
646 (13.8) |
1089 (23.3) |
1377 (29.5) |
1003 (21.5) |
3.35 | 1.28 |
| How ethical do you think artificial meat would be compared to conventional meat? | 431 (9.2) |
453 (9.7) |
1567 (33.6) |
1292 (27.7) |
923 (19.8) |
3.39 | 1.18 |
| How eco-friendly do you think artificial meat would be compared to conventional meat? | 324 (6.9) |
355 (7.6) |
1496 (32.1) |
1517 (32.5) |
974 (20.9) |
3.53 | 1.11 |
| Do you think artificial meat have negative impacts on conventional meat industry? | 290 (6.2) |
411 (8.8) |
1476 (31.6) |
1480 (31.7) |
1009 (21.6) |
3.54 | 1.11 |
| Do you think artificial meat have negative impacts onterritories and rural life? | 348 (7.5) |
571 (12.2) |
1338 (28.7) |
1358 (29.1) |
1051 (22.5) |
3.47 | 1.18 |
| B. Question–Perception | Response (1 Much Less–5 Much More) | ||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Mean | SD | |
| How healthy, safe and nutritional do you think artificial meat would be compared to conventional meat? | 1098 | 1358 | 1614 | 409 | 187 | 2.41 | 1.06 |
| (23.5) | (29.1) | (34.5) | (8.7) | (4.0) | |||
| How tasty do you think artificial meat would be compared to conventional meat? | 1279 | 1556 | 1292 | 358 | 181 | 2.27 | 1.06 |
| (27.4) | (33.3) | (27.7) | (7.7) | (3.9) | |||
| Do you have emotional resistance to try artificial meat? | 1130 | 1311 | 1472 | 412 | 341 | 2.47 | 1.16 |
| (24.2) | (28.1) | (31.5) | (8.8) | (7.3) | |||
1 1 Much less, 2 2 Less, much less-1 and less-2 sometimes were analyzed together; 3 3 Neutral; 4 4 More, 5 5 Much more, more-4 and much more-5 sometimes were analyzed together; 6 Number of responses; 7 (percentage of responses).