Current Questions on Climate Protection, Focus: Food (January 2023)

The short survey on current questions on climate protection, focus: food was conducted by the opinion research institute Kantar on behalf of the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government. In the survey period 25.01.2023 to 31.01.2023, the German-speaking population aged 14 and over in private households was surveyed on climate protection in telephone interviews (CATI). The focus of this edition is on questions about food, food purchases, and current food-related policies. Respondents were selected by a multi-stage random sample in a multi-topic survey (Emnid bus) including landline and mobile phone numbers (dual-frame sample).<br>Concerns about possible consequences of climate change; assessment of current political measures for climate protection (appropriate, go too far or do not go far enough); contribution of citizens to climate protection in various areas (choice of means of transport, nutrition, energy use, waste, purchasing behavior); agreement with various statements on the topic of nutrition (fruit and vegetables are too expensive, meat and sausage products are too expensive, it is important for climate protection that people eat less meat, politics in Germany does too little for species-appropriate animal husbandry, too few meat-free dishes are offered in restaurants and canteens, people who eat meat are currently often made to feel guilty, people who eat a meat-free diet are often ridiculed, politics interferes too much in people´s lives when it comes to nutrition); frequency of meat consumption; future personal meat consumption; frequency of buying organic food; assessment of various measures related to food (exemption from punishment for stealing food that has already been disposed of but is still edible from supermarket dumpsters, abolition of VAT on fruit and vegetables, higher taxes on meat and sausage for greater animal welfare, obligation of supermarkets to donate expired food, permission to grow genetically modified crops, promotion of animal-friendly and environmentally friendly conversions of barns for smaller farms).

Demography: sex; age; education; employment status; household size; number of persons in household 14 years and older; party preference; voting eligibility; net household income; survey by mobile or landline;

Additionally coded: Respondent ID; weighting factor; interview date; BIK locality size; political locality size; federal state; survey area west/east.