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DOI	10.1016/j.appet.2024.107269
	Moral disengagement in the media discourses on meat and dairy production systems
	Schuessler, Charlotte; Nicolai, Susanne; Stoll-Kleemann, Susanne; Bartkowski, Bartosz
发表日期	2024
ISSN	0195-6663
EISSN	1095-8304
起始页码	196
卷号	196
英文摘要	Meat and dairy production and consumption are the subject of ongoing public debates that touch on various sustainability issues such as biodiversity loss, climate change, animal welfare, and social and health aspects. Despite extensive discussions specifically relating to the environmental impacts of livestock farming in conjunction with animal welfare aspects, there have been no substantial changes in production or consumption patterns. Moreover, the focus of extant research is usually on consumers' responses to public concerns around livestock production. In this study, we shed light on the discrepancy between the normative discourse and action of relevant value chain actors with the help of Bandura's theory of moral disengagement, which allows us to identify mechanisms that contribute to the perpetuation of unsustainable production and consumption patterns. In particular, we focus on the shifting of responsibility between actors in the normatively charged field of sustainable livestock production. We collected 109 media interviews on meat and dairy production and consumption from the years 2020-2022, including interviews with actors from agriculture, processing industries, and food retail. Using qualitative content analysis, we investigated the role of moral disengagement in the media discourse on meat and dairy production and explored differences between actors in terms of moral disengagement. We found that shifting of responsibility shows a quasi -circular dynamic of being shifted from all actors to all, in our case most frequently to consumers, politics, and (diffuse) economic forces. In addition, our analysis showed the use of social justifications, beneficial comparisons, and euphemistic labelling to be common mechanisms of moral disengagement, constituting a collective problem within agri-food systems.
英文关键词	Moral disengagement; Cognitive dissonance; Media discourses; Agri -food systems; Meat and dairy production; Responsibility shifting
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Behavioral Sciences ; Nutrition & Dietetics
WOS类目	Behavioral Sciences ; Nutrition & Dietetics
WOS记录号	WOS:001197433500001
来源期刊	APPETITE
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/289308
作者单位	Helmholtz Association; Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ); Universitat Greifswald; Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Schuessler, Charlotte,Nicolai, Susanne,Stoll-Kleemann, Susanne,et al. Moral disengagement in the media discourses on meat and dairy production systems[J],2024,196.
APA	Schuessler, Charlotte,Nicolai, Susanne,Stoll-Kleemann, Susanne,&Bartkowski, Bartosz.(2024).Moral disengagement in the media discourses on meat and dairy production systems.APPETITE,196.
MLA	Schuessler, Charlotte,et al."Moral disengagement in the media discourses on meat and dairy production systems".APPETITE 196(2024).