The Business of Boycotting: Having Your Chicken and Eating It Too

Tomhave, Alan; Vopat, Mark C.

doi:10.1007/s10551-016-3336-y

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“…There is a growing visibility of consumption choices as a form of politics [ 43 ]. This can include campaigns to boycott particular products because of the product manufacturer’s political views [ 44 ], or efforts to purchase products that meet ethical standards of production and trade [ 45 , 46 ]. None of these political aspects of food consumption are covered by research into antibiotics and consumer preferences.…”

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Consumer perceptions of antimicrobial use in animal husbandry: A scoping review

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Antimicrobial use in animal agriculture is often perceived to play a role in the emerging threat of antimicrobial resistance. Increased consumer awareness of this issue places pressure on animal husbandry to adopt policies to reduce or eliminate antimicrobial use. We use a scoping review methodology to assess research on consumer perceptions of antimicrobial drugs in meat products in the United States, Canada, or the European Union. Evaluating peer-reviewed and grey literature, we included studies for assessment if they met these topical and geographic requirements, involved primary data collection, and were originally published in English. Our screening process identified 124 relevant studies. Three reviewers jointly developed a data charting form and independently charted the contents of the studies. Of the 105 studies that measured consumer concern, 77.1% found that consumers were concerned about antimicrobial use in meat production. A minority of studies (29.8% of all studies) queried why consumers hold these views. These studies found human health and animal welfare were the main reasons for concern. Antimicrobial resistance rarely registered as an explicit reason for concern. A smaller group of studies (23.3%) measured the personal characteristics of consumers that expressed concern about antimicrobials. Among these studies, the most common and consistent features of these consumers were gender, age, income, and education. Regarding the methodology used, studies tended to be dominated by either willingness-to-pay studies or Likert scale questionnaires (73.64% of all studies). We recommend consideration of qualitative research into consumer views on this topic, which may provide new perspectives that explain consumer decision-making and mentality that are lacking in the literature. In addition, more research into the difference between what consumers claim is of concern and their ultimate purchasing decisions would be especially valuable.

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Consumer perceptions of antimicrobial use in animal husbandry: A scoping review

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“…(14th August, 2018)Mortality and attribution are shifting balances, because attribution of responsibility is shifted to tourists themselves when they are reminded that a complete boycott is the only solution to get ‘even’ with locals and tourism-affiliated businesses in Murree. The need to perceive oneself as a moral person leads tourists to believe that it is their personal and moral responsibility to bring change and punish the destination for misconduct and ill-treatment of tourists through a complete boycott (Tomhave and Vopat, 2018). Coupled with little or no attempt to correct service delivery failures by tourism-affiliated businesses, this makes tourists’ dissatisfaction translate into a desire to seek revenge against the targeted entity (Obeidat et al, 2017).…”

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Understanding tourists’ motivations to launch a boycott on social media: A case study of the #BoycottMurree campaign in Pakistan

Yousaf

Razzaq

Fan

2021

Journal of Vacation Marketing

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This research paper studies the domestic tourism destination boycott of Murree, the most popular tourist spot in Pakistan. Murree, a hill spot in the footsteps of the Himalayan mountain ranges, attracts millions of tourists from all over Pakistan every year due to its natural scenery and easy accessibility. However, weak regulation and unmanageable demand have made the local hospitality industry quixotic, prompting affiliated businesses in Murree to exploit tourists. Subsequently, the #BoycottMurree campaign was launched on social media at the beginning of 2018; this campaign gained quickly momentum, and Murree reported declines in business for the first time during the summer season of 2018. Using a netnographic case study approach of the #BoycottMurree campaign it found that the communication revolved around instrumental boycott motives and non-instrumental boycott motives. Moreover, the tourist ethnocentrism theme naturally emerged from the data, advocating anti-boycott. Overall, the results theoretically inform the literature by extrapolating tourist boycott notions in terms of domestic tourism and pointing out the ways in which domestic tourism boycotts may be different from international tourism boycotts. The results also guide domestic tourism organizations and businesses about the importance of developing competing destinations.

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“…The findings also show that boycott participation can make tourists feel better about themselves and improves their identity formation and public self-image. Tomhave and Vopat, (2018) argue that some consumers believe it is their personal and moral mission to impact change and punish a place by boycotting it because they want to perceive themselves as moral people. This connects with discussions about the so called 'moral turn' in the social sciences, which emphasises consumers' can care not only for 'their own' and people close by, but also for distant strangers (Massey, 2004).…”

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confidence: 99%