Public Address | Cafe | Speaker: Bullshit and pigeon shit: inside a "tourist tannery"

Bart Janssen

Wed, 08 Nov 2017 16:06:33 +1300

My friend describes this kind of tourism as "human zoo".

We saw it in Cambodia where, in the first village we visited, the guide essentially walked us through peoples homes showing us how the locals lived. After that we chose to play cards on the boat rather than visit any…

TracyMac

Wed, 08 Nov 2017 15:26:17 +1300

Great article and photos, thanks. Ian's contribution is exactly the image that sprang up my mind as well.

I'd quibble slightly that this particular form of tourism is substantially about witnessing people suffering, though. There's the "handcrafted = better" bullshit (often patently false when it comes to primary processing), and…

Ian Dalziel

Wed, 08 Nov 2017 13:51:09 +1300

Bunters, Toshers and Pure collectors...
Excellent article and expose Clinton.
I've recently been reading about Victorian 'pure collectors'...
Pure Collector: Whilst this job may not sound particularly gruesome, what we have here is a classic example of good old fashioned Victorian euphemistic thinking. A pure collector actually collected dog faeces…

ilmars Gravis

Wed, 08 Nov 2017 13:04:11 +1300

Thank you, very interesting and thoughtful post, and great (but confronting photographs). Reminds me of days driving container trucks in Melbourne, two of the most eye-watering sites I had to pick up from were a tannery where pallets of salted hides were packed into containers for export, and a factory…

Public Address

Wed, 08 Nov 2017 13:04:11 +1300

Discussion from blog post.