Animals, food, and tourism /

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Imprint:London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
©2018
Description:xvi, 181 pages : illustrations maps ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Routledge ethics of tourism ; 1
Routledge ethics of tourism ; 1
Subject:Tourism -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Food tourism.
Animals -- Food.
Animals -- Food.
Food tourism.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11448145
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Other authors / contributors:Kline, Carol, editor.
ISBN:9781138291607
1138291609
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Food is routinely given attention in tourism research as a motivator of travel. Regardless of whether tourists travel with a primary motivation for experiencing local food, eating is required during their trip. This book encompasses an interdisciplinary discussion of animals as a source of food within the context of tourism. Themes include the raising, harvesting, and processing of farm animals for food; considerations in marketing animals as food; and the link between consuming animals and current environmental concerns. Ethical issues are addressed in social, economic, environmental, and political terms.

The chapters are grounded in ethics-related theories and frameworks including critical theory, ecofeminism, gustatory ethics, environmental ethics, ethics within a political economy context, cultural relativism, market construction paradigm, ethical resistance, and the Global Sustainable Tourism Criteria. Several chapters explore contradicting and paradoxical ethical perspectives, whether those contradictions exist between government and private sector, between tourism and other industries, or whether they lie within ourselves.

Like the authors in Tourism Experiences & Animal Consumption: Contested Values, Morality, & Ethics , the authors in this book wrestle with a range of issues such as animal sentience, the environmental consequences of animals as food, viewing animals solely as a extractive resource for human will, as well as the artificial cultural distortion of animals as food for tourism marketing purposes. This book will appeal to tourism academics and graduate students as a reference for their own research or as supplementary material for courses focused on ethics within tourism.

Physical Description:xvi, 181 pages : illustrations maps ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781138291607
1138291609