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Abstract
A large segment of consumers appear to value niche products including organic, “non-GM,” “pesticide-free,” and
“no antibiotics used” more in fresh products than in processed. About ten percent of the respondents were especially
interested in non-GM products. These consumers feel that GM labeling is important, but felt that other types of food
labels were relatively unimportant. The non-GM audience defied easy demographic profiling. Data were collected by
both surveys and experimental auctions, with factor analysis and cluster analysis used to interpret the data. The survey
and experimental auction data yielded different willingness-to-pay values but showed similar patterns of consumer
preferences.