Factors affecting rabbit meat consumption among Spanish university students

Ecol Food Nutr. 2010 Jul-Aug;49(4):298-315. doi: 10.1080/03670244.2010.491053.

Abstract

This study investigates the rabbit meat consumption patterns among students. Results of the 342 students surveyed at the University of Seville, Spain showed that more men than women consumed rabbit meat. More students consumed wild rabbit meat than farmed rabbit meat. The practice of hunting by students or their relatives, and the raising of rabbits for self-consumption, positively influenced the proportion of students that currently consumed rabbit meat. Most of the students that had eaten rabbit meat before but are currently non-eaters do so because of the meat's organoleptic characteristics or from lack of consumption habit.

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Animal Husbandry
  • Animals
  • Animals, Wild*
  • Carnivory*
  • Diet*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Meat*
  • Rabbits*
  • Sex Factors
  • Spain
  • Students
  • Universities
  • Young Adult