PHI_445 Week 3 Discussion, Current Business Problems: Case Studies: British Petroleum
Out of all the chicken consumed in the United States, Perdue produces the most. 9,900 concentrated animal feeding operations farms produce approximately 80% of the meat consumed by Americans averaging 270 po...
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PHI_445 Week 3 Discussion, Current Business Problems: Case Studies: British Petroleum
Out of all the chicken consumed in the United States, Perdue produces the most. 9,900
concentrated animal feeding operations farms produce approximately 80% of the meat
consumed by Americans averaging 270 pound per person every year (Fieser, 2015).
Utilitarianism is the moral good of pleasure and is achieved by acting in ways that bring
about increased pleasure and reduced pain, and results that appeal to the greater good.
Shouldn’t everything affected by an action be taken into consideration-whether it is
human or not? “Jeremy Bentham incorporated the essential basis of moral equality into
his utilitarian system of ethics in the formula: “Each to count for one and none for more
than one” (Singer, 1989, p. 3). Henry Sidgwick, another utilitarian stated that “the good
of any one individual is of no more importance, from the point of view of the Universe,
than the good of any other” (Singer, 1989, p. 3). Therefore, if something has the capacity
to suffer then it should be taken into consideration.
Craig Watts debated taking action against Perdue concerning chickens being raised in
inhumane conditions. He spoke up for the greater good and demonstrated moral freedom
of not participating in practices that produced suffering. Stathopoulos (2010), explained
how these concentrated animal feeding operations confine them into unsanitary
conditions, feed them harmful substances and give them hormones, stating that they
“closely resemble fetid prisons than farms” (p.410). Not only should we be concerned for
the welfare of the animals, but also the health of humans as well. The animals are bred
for quantity, not quality and the hormones and antibiotics eventually end up in the
consumers. Factory farming is a cheaper way to mass produce meat, but cheaper does not
mean that it is better. We need to rethink our want for more and focus on what we need
and care about what we are doing to these animals that we eventually end up eating.
As far as laws surrounding factory farming, “since animals raised for food production
receive virtually no protection under federal law and only ineffective protection under
state anti-cruelty laws,18 the regulation of their treatment is left to the farm industry
itself” (Stathopoulos, 2010, p. 411). The FDA has the authority to regulate activities on
farm sites to prevent unsafe food products; however the USDA doesn’t have authority to
regulate the safety of food products on a farm level (Stathopoulos, 2010, p. 410). The
national humane education society (2016) maintains that there are no federal laws setting
humane care standards for factory farming.
Fieser, J. (2015). Introduction to business ethics [Electronic version]. Retrieved from
https://content.ashford.edu/
The National Humane Education Society. (2016). Government Regulation of Factory
Farms. Retrieved from https://nhes.org/3372-2/
Singer, P. (1989). All animals are equal. In T. Regan & P. Singer (Eds.), Animal rights
and human obligations (pp. 148-162). Retrieved from
http://spot.colorado.edu/~heathwoo/phil1200%2CSpr07/singer.pdf
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