A New Concept Generated by Commoditizing Animals: Egological tourism

Abstract

Animals have been used to amuse people forthousands of years, trained for dolphin shows, circus and similar tricks foundamusing by viewers/participants, and have suffered pain in the activities thatare so-called “sports”, such as rodeo, horse racing, greyhound racing,bullfighting and camel wrestling; i.e., they are turned into a performer andracer by humans (Regan, 2007). What Regan says above basically addresses the commoditizationof animals. Undoubtedly, tourism and its components incorporated in capitalismare to blame. This is why, in his book and philosophy, Regan asks to empty thecages and pools and wishes to free all animals involved in any shows. However,this could only come true when tourism ceases to see animals as a product andmarket them to tourists/visitors and the consumers wish to debar from such amusement