Dutch positive about buying products with quality marks

Consumers in the international literature ascribe little or only modest impact to boycotting. By contrast, the Dutch take a reasonably positive view of the effect of buying food with quality marks or reducing the amount of meat in their daily diet: a (large) majority believe that these actions make a major contribution to a sustainable food system. Dutch consumers do however have difficulty keeping track of the more than 170 quality marks and labels with which they are now confronted.
In a study, the Netherlands Institute for Social Research (SCP) views political consumerism from a political science and sociological perspective, and presents the available data for the Netherlands.
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