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Ethics of Environmental Protection

This document discusses several topics related to business ethics and environmental protection. It addresses the obligations of current generations to protect the environment for future generations. It also examines the ethics of factory farming and how animals are treated. Several arguments are presented regarding whether it is wrong to eat meat given the suffering of animals on factory farms. The challenges of transitioning to more humane and sustainable farming practices are also considered.

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Ethics of Environmental Protection

This document discusses several topics related to business ethics and environmental protection. It addresses the obligations of current generations to protect the environment for future generations. It also examines the ethics of factory farming and how animals are treated. Several arguments are presented regarding whether it is wrong to eat meat given the suffering of animals on factory farms. The challenges of transitioning to more humane and sustainable farming practices are also considered.

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14.

Ethics of Environmental Protection


To reduce, eliminate, or avoid pollution and
depletion of scare resources is in our collective
interest.
Air, water, flora and fauna to be considered.
Business unwittingly produces pollutant,
which in turn causes environment degradability.
Should business be responsible to pay for the
clean-up of the pollution?
14. Obligations to Future Generations
Future generations have the right to live in a
“livable environment”.
Therefore, it is our duty to care for the
habitable environment for future generations.
If we to gain small benefit for ourselves by
injuring the environment, we are Selfish and
short-sighted.
• Annettee Baier argues that the important
thing is to “recognize our obligations to
consider the good of the continuing human
community”
• John Rawls suggested the members of each
generation put themselves in the “original
position”. Based on distributive justice, they
could decides what would be just way to
distributes the resources between consecutive
generations
14. Treatment to Animals

•“The question is not, Can they reasons?


Nor, Can they talk? But, Can they Suffer?”
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
•When deciding, the pleasure and pain of
animal should be taken into account.
Factory Farming

• Chicken (stuffed in tiny cages and, fed) as


source of eggs, and meat
• In cages they suffered foot damages, feather
loss, “debeaked” to prevent cannibalism from
overcrowding
• Hens unable to satisfy such fundamental
behavioural needs of stretching, perching,
walking, scratching, and nest building
Is it Wrong to Eat Meat?
• Hogs. Piglets spend 80% • Veal calves for “milk-fed”
of their lives in intensive veal.
confinement in tiny wire • New born calves taken
cages or tiny cement from their mothers and
pens. placed in 22”x54” crates
• Once reach 50 lbs, they • No exercise, unable to
are moved into 6-foot turn around, and lie down
stalls with concrete-slated for their entire live.
floors ready for culling. • Deprive of iron (causing
anemic) to make their
meat light colour
Is it Wrong to Eat Meat?
• What about animals that were raised
humanely: free pasture, natural life cycles?
• Economics reality, mass production of meat at
affordable prices currently dictates factory
farming.
• Ethical issues: “cruelty” to animals that we
eat, raises profound and challenging questions
for business and consumers alike!
Business Ecology
• Organic farming and its consequences on:
– Product quality
– Product prices
– Production system/techniques
– Supporting industries: fertilizer, pesticides etc
– Labor economy
– Production R&D
• Society’s Mindset.
• Roles of NGO; Education; society
14. Business Ecology
Some states in US prohibits the confinement of
pregnant sows or raised calves for veal and Hens
caged in larger space
Mc Donald serves eggs from hens with
minimum 72 square inches cages
Google serves eggs only from free ranging
hens.
Europe : illegal to treat pregnant sows and
production of veil as US does.
German constitution include the right of
animals to be treated decently

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