ABSTRACT

This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explains the barbeque tourism boom is one of several entry points into understanding the racialization of travel, memory, and identity within America and the ethical consequences it holds for the lives and livelihoods of people of color". The range of work yet to be done within the ethics in eating animals within a tourism context is nothing short of considerable. The book presents the cases from a variety of cultural, political, and economic viewpoints. Ethical standards are formalized in various ways to impart a common understanding of how things should be, and more specifically how humans should act. Several authors differentiate a tourist's motives for eating animals from those of a local resident; this contrast draws into focus ethical concerns of commodifying local folk and lifeways.