Public and Private Preferences for Animal Cloning Policies

Brooks, Kathleen R.; Lusk, Jayson L.

Public and Private Preferences for Animal Cloning Policies

2017

Brooks, Kathleen R. | Lusk, Jayson L.

Data on individuals’ private shopping choices are often used to draw conclusions about theirdesires for food policies. The purpose of this paper is to test this often-implicit assumption usingdata from a nationwide survey about animal cloning. We find that although individuals’ privatechoices indicate a strong desire to avoid meat and milk from cloned cattle, public choices predictthat only 40.29% have a positive WTP for such a ban. The results suggest caution is necessarywhen inferring public preferences from private choices.

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