Special Eurobarometer 229: Attitudes of consumers towards the welfare of farmed animals

This survey is focused particularly on the attitude of consumers to the welfare and protection of farmed animals. It was commissioned by the European Commission’s Health and Consumer Protection Directorate General. The survey has been carried out by TNS Opinion & Social, interviewing 24 708 citizens in the 25 Member States of the European Union between 9 February and 20 March 2005. This report tackles the following themes in turn: ♦ the welfare of farmed animals, ♦ purchasing behaviour and the welfare of farmed animals, ♦ and animal welfare at the European level. For each of these points, we analyse the results in terms of the European average and we then consider the breakdown of results by country and by socio-demographic variables1 . Furthermore, we have systematically cross-analysed the responses to all the questions with additional classification variables, i.e.: ♦ question 1, on the frequency with which respondents purchase food for the household, ♦ question 2, regarding the frequency of meat consumption, ♦ question 3, on the frequency with which meat is purchased with animal welfare in mind. ♦ question 4, on the frequency of visits of animal rearing farms, ♦ question 5, concerning farm animals for which the welfare should be most improved, ♦ question 6, regarding the identification on the label of the animal welfare friendly production systems, ♦ question 7, concerning the impact of buying animal welfare friendly products on the protection/ welfare of farm animals, ♦ question 8, more specifically, on the rating of the welfare of laying hens, dairy cows and pigs, ♦ question 9, the source of eggs, ♦ question 10, concerning the price premium the respondent would be willing to pay for eggs sourced from an animal welfare friendly production system, #####The results by volumes are distributed as follows: * Volume A: Countries * Volume AA: Groups of countries * Volume A' (AP): Trends * Volume AA' (AAP): Trends of groups of countries * Volume B: EU/socio-demographics * Volume B' (BP) : Trends of EU/ socio-demographics * Volume C: Country/socio-demographics ---- Researchers may also contact GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences: [https://www.gesis.org/eurobarometer](https://www.gesis.org/eurobarometer)