Exploring everyday life dynamics in meat reduction - A cluster analysis of flexitarians in Denmark

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Exploring everyday life dynamics in meat reduction – a cluster analysis of flexitarians in Denmark. Flexitarians are attracting increasing attention in the research on meat reduction. But there has been limited focus on comprehensive understandings of a broader range of dynamics that can work as barriers and facilitators for meat reduction. In this article, we use social practice theory (SPT) as a comprehensive approach to barriers and facilitators in meat reduction in everyday life. We present an analysis of data from a representative Danish cross-sectional survey. We show, first, that Danish flexitarians can be divided into four distinct clusters (what we will refer to as classes) in accordance with combinations of everyday facilitators and barriers. Second, we show that the prevalence of these classes varies considerably depending on how long people have been flexitarians. We argue that the patterns in this variation indicate that over time people transition to other classes where barriers to plant-rich eating become less significant, and routinization emerges in different ways. Finally, third, we show that flexitarians do report eating less meat than consumers who label themselves as eating meat with no restrictions. But we also highlight that the difference is relatively modest. Indeed, meat intake is still quite common even in classes where routinization is highest. Throughout the paper, we discuss similarities and differences between the SPT framework and another recent framework, the COM-B model, that also provides a comprehensive approach to the understanding of behavioural change.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
Artikelnummer106487
TidsskriftAppetite
Vol/bind183
Antal sider14
ISSN0195-6663
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2023

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Funding Information:
The Velux Foundation supported the research financially, project number 27826. CONCITO, The Danish Green Think Tank, is a practice partner in the research project. The article benefitted from the comments of two anonymous reviewers.

Funding Information:
The Velux Foundation supported the research financially, project number 27826 . CONCITO, The Danish Green Think Tank, is a practice partner in the research project. The article benefitted from the comments of two anonymous reviewers.

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© 2023 Elsevier Ltd

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