. 2022 Apr 5;9:856491. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2022.856491

Table 5.

Willingness to pay for gene-edited meat with different beneficial features across attitudinal groups.

¹Willingness to pay (£) for gene-edited meat products	Attitudinal group
	Anti-gene-editing, Kingdom indifferent (n = 125)	Anti-gene-editing, Kingdom different (n = 168)	Moderate (n = 307)	Pro-gene-editing (n = 88)	All (n = 688)
Without special features	−2.10^a ^b ± 1.6	−2.05^a ± 1.28	−0.72^b ± 1.13	−0.14^c ± 0.46	−0.69 ± 1.14
From animal with increased disease resistance	−0.87^a ± 2.17	−0.19^a ^b ± 1.63	0.49^a ^b ± 0.99	0.73^b ± 0.6	0.43 ± 1.11
From animal with lowered GHG emission	−1.08^a ^b ± 1.94	−0.89^a ± 1.81	0.35^b ^c ± 1.03	0.59^c ± 0.62	0.25 ± 1.18
With increased Omega3 content	−1.0^a ^b ^c ± 2.16	−0.72^a ± 1.69	0.27^b ± 1.1	0.54^c ± 0.69	0.22 ± 1.19

Average and SD willingness to pay among those respondents willing to consume gene-edited meat. Negative values refer to discount required by consumers in order to purchase.

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Different letters indicate statistically significant differences between consumer groups, calculated according to Pairwise t-test variance (P < 0.05).