Oct. 29, 2002
Consumers’ Resistance to GM-foods:
by
Wallace E. Huffman, Matthew Rousu, Jason F. Shogren, and Abebayehu Tegene*
*The authors are Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor of Agriculture and Professor of Economics, Iowa State University; Research Economist, RTI International, Stroock Distinguished Professor of Natural Resource Conservation and Management, Department of Economics and Finance, University of Wyoming; and Program Leader and Agricultural Economist, Food and Rural Economics Division, ERS, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Copyright 2002 by W. E. Huffman, M. Rousu, J. F. Shogren, and A. Tegene. All Rights Reserved. Readers may make verbatim copies of this document for non-commercial purposes by any means, provided that this copyright notice appears on all such copies.
Helpful comments were obtained from Vernon Ruttan, Dan Bromley, and participants in a Seminar in the Applied Economics Department, University of Wisconsin. The authors gratefully acknowledge assistance from Daniel Monchuk and Terrance Hurley in conducting the auctions and assistance from Monsanto, in providing some of the products used in the experiment.
This work was supported through a grant from the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, under Agreement 00-52100-9617 and from U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, under agreement 43-3AEL-8-80125. Journal paper no. of the Iowa Agricultural and Home Economics Experiment Station, Ames, IA. Project 6590.
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