Public and Private Preferences for Animal Cloning Policies
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Data on individuals’ private shopping choices are often used to draw conclusions about their
desires for food policies. The purpose of this paper is to test this often-implicit assumption using
data from a nationwide survey about animal cloning. We find that although individuals’ private
choices indicate a strong desire to avoid meat and milk from cloned cattle, public choices predict
that only 40.29% have a positive WTP for such a ban. The results suggest caution is necessary
when inferring public preferences from private choices.