Ethical Food Market

Growing concerns towards animal welfare

The majority of the 60 billion animals raised for food globally each year are intensively reared, which has implications for animal welfare and consumer safety (e.g., increased occurrence of zoonoses, diseases that are associated with farmed animals and are transferable to humans such as salmonella, BSE, avian flu, swine flu, etc.).

Food markets allow people to express their ethical values by consuming those values: free-range and vegetarian products represent the value of animal well-being.

Consumers in Europe place a high value on animal welfare. Food quality is now determined not only by the general nature & safety of the end product but also by the perceived welfare status of animals from which the food is derived.

Improving animal welfare can positively impact product quality, pathology and disease resistance, directly affecting food quality and safety.

The pandemic had a positive impact on the world's ethical food market. Coronavirus spread has positively impacted the global ethical food market, with sales of organic food products increasing significantly in 2020.

Concerns about animal-origin viruses and the threat of virus transmission through meat products pushed consumers toward more sustainable plant-based foods. The pandemic is likely to have a long-term impact on consumers' attitudes toward ethical consumption.

Growing environmental concerns

Climate change and environmental issues such as carbon emissions, global warming, plastic and food waste have compelled businesses to focus on sustainable products. Growing environmental concerns are causing businesses and consumers to gravitate toward ethical/sustainable-certified products.

According to Our World in Data's statistics on the environmental impact of food, published in January 2020, food accounts for approximately 26% of global greenhouse emissions, with agriculture accounting for half of the world's habitable land and 70% of the freshwater used for agriculture.

Pesticides are primarily used in food production to control insects, rodents, weeds, bacteria, mold and fungus. Crop production for direct human consumption contributes 21% of food emissions, while animal feed production contributes 6%. It is agricultural production's direct emissions, including nitrous oxide emissions from fertilizer and manure application, methane emissions from rice production and carbon dioxide emissions from agricultural machinery.

As a result of the growing environmental impact of food production and the growing demand for sustainable food, companies are increasingly focusing on sustainable production, which is expected to drive the market.

Packaging companies respond to the trend by developing sustainable organic food and other products. As a result, ethical food companies' emphasis on sustainable food production is a significant driver shaping the ethical food market in the coming years.

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