USE REQUIRED RESOURCES ATTACHED!
Prepare: In preparation for your first post in this discussion, you will become familiar with the case of Perdue Farms by means of the material listed on the Required Resources module. You will also find more material via the “Business Ethics Materials” section at the bottom of the Required Resources module page. The central task for this discussion is to examine this case by focusing on 1 out of the following 4 categories: (1) the environment, (2) advertising, (3) consumer safety, or (4) moral responsibility. You must select 1 of these subject headings and your selection will be the main focus of your work for your discussion. Please note that you will be responsible to complete the readings and videos that you will find via the link for your chosen subject heading. (For example, if you choose “the environment” to focus on, then the materials listed via that link are required resources that you need to read/view in preparation for writing your post.)
Reflect:
1) How you reflect in preparation for writing the post will depend on which focus you choose.
If you choose “the environment” as your focus, reflect on the sheer density of chickens raised at any given time in the Perdue facilities. The disposal of their discarded remains and their processing for distribution, either individually and most definitely together, pose a number of environmental concerns.
2) Make sure that you complete the required readings and videos on the main Required Resources page as well as the resources required for your chosen category.
3) Then reflect on the ethical theories that we have covered in the discussions thus far, and identify one that you want to apply for your analysis in your discussion post.
4) Also, reflect on the regulations (or lack thereof) in the factory farming industry in order to be able to examine how our nation’s laws affect the operations of the business. You will need to research the applicable laws on the factory farming industry.
5) Finally, since Perdue Farms is an American corporation, reflect on the mixed economic system in the United States in order to articulate the setting for the operations of factory farming, and then, be able to analyze the ethical actions of Perdue given this setting.
Write:
Part 1
The central task for this discussion is to examine this case by focusing on 1 out of the following 4 categories: (1) the environment, (2) advertising, (3) consumer safety, or (4) moral responsibility. You must select 1 of these categories and your selection will be the main focus of your post.
In the first part of your initial post, you will need to introduce the Perdue case by explaining the relevant details for understanding the controversial issues associated with the category that you have chosen. Within this introduction, you will need to:
(1) articulate the relevant characteristics of U.S.’s mixed economic system that the case is operating within, and
(2) present the regulations for the factory farming industry that are relevant to understanding the case and your chosen focus for this post.
(1) and (2) will provide the setting for you to be able to examine how the nation’s laws affect business operations.
Part 2
In the second part of your initial post, you need to explain the ethical dimensions of the problem in this case focusing on the category you chose (either the environment, advertising, consumer safety, or corporate social responsibility). Your explanation should present an analysis of the interplay between the business activity in the case and the category you chose. Your analysis of the problem must be well supported by clearly applying a framework from an ethical theory of your choice. It should also be supported by reliable and/or scholarly sources, which must be cited using APA formatting style.
It is important to present your analysis of the problem in a way that identifies which entities (Perdue as a corporation, the economic system in the USA, the regulatory control of the state, or all of these) have a role in the moral problem that you have presented. As part of your analysis, you must evaluate the negative or positive effects of the interplay between business activity and the category you chose.
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