Trevor Woolley

Assistant Professor at UW-Madison Agricultural & Applied Economics, affiliate at Dairy Innovation Hub. [email protected]

[Trevor Woolley @yoursTWoolley]

"Work to change people’s hearts and minds may only go so far; changing the sticker price consumers see at the grocery store would likely have a much greater impact"--Vox article on my working paper with @zdgroff and Carl Meyer.

https://t.co/7Nq6wy0WY2

[Trevor Woolley @yoursTWoolley]

@zraff4 Farmer (dis-)incentives for adopting animal welfare practices broken down by industry.

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[Trevor Woolley @yoursTWoolley]

🚨New publication in Food Policy!

“A Scoping Review of (Dis-)Incentives for Animal Welfare-improving Farming Practices”

Link to full paper: https://t.co/anEfzzLp9L

We use machine learning + a systematic review of 30 years of US research to understand

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@zraff4 Farmer (dis-)incentives for/against adopting animal welfare-improving practices (all industries)

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[Trevor Woolley @yoursTWoolley]

"Are Federal Workers Lazy?" Some helpful descriptive statistics by Washington Post https://t.co/vK5SfujWU3

[Trevor Woolley @yoursTWoolley]

White House:*Bans the least biased news source of all time* “We’ve always been at war with Eurasia” https://t.co/7EjaRpYwfE

[Trevor Woolley @yoursTWoolley]

@NTFabiano Looks like "1 egg/week" is associated with lower risk. That's not exactly "frequent egg consumption" to most people.

[Zach Freitas-Groff 🔸 @zdgroff]

Banger quote from @dylanmatt:

"If I were to file effective altruism down to its more core, elemental truth, it’s this: “We should let children die to rebuild a cathedral” is not a principle anyone should be willing to accept."

[Trevor Woolley @yoursTWoolley]

@BrianKateman @mbolotnikova Found the email!

[Trevor Woolley @yoursTWoolley]

@BrianKateman @mbolotnikova Best is [email protected]

I dont know how individual households changed their own consumption over time, but we know that the definition of “10th percentile of meat consumption” increased between 2005 and 2020. More detail than that would require a closer look.

[Trevor Woolley @yoursTWoolley]

@BrianKateman @mbolotnikova the 10th percentile of meat purchasers still increased their consumption over this time period. It’s possible/probable that some percentile even lower than 10th decreased though!

[Trevor Woolley @yoursTWoolley]

@BrianKateman @mbolotnikova Hi Brian! I wasn’t able to find an email from you but I’d love to chat in more detail.

Depends on what you mean by “households reducing” meat purchases. We don’t know who is actively trying to reduce their meat consumption. But

[Trevor Woolley @yoursTWoolley]

@2024dion @mbolotnikova And younger generations do seem to be consuming less meat than older generations even after accounting for prices, so that's good news!

[Trevor Woolley @yoursTWoolley]

@2024dion @mbolotnikova Our study can't say anything about motives. But I can tell you that a fair chunk of meat avoidance is purely people responding to prices

[Trevor Woolley @yoursTWoolley]

@Lewis_Bollard @zdgroff Yes! But, importantly, meat purchases for almost everyone else is simultaneously rising (15% increase since 2005 on avg). As we highlight in the paper, prices are a key driver of their behavior.

[Lewis Bollard @Lewis_Bollard]

Is veganism rising? Headlines confidently claim yes and no based on rival surveys.

New research, by @zdgroff et al using grocery receipts, offers a more reliable answer...

2X more households aren't buying animal products than in 2005, but it's still only ~1% of households.