Business Ethics

McDonald’s fast food chain was very close to wining the Business Ethics award for environmental excellence in 1999. Ironically, shortly before they received the award they became the example of animal mistreatment. This occurred when the Business Ethics group heard about a campaign being done by, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). PETA is known for their negative publications on businesses for animal mistreatment in the United States. The People for the Ethical …showed first 75 words of 1490 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1490 total…can be no justifiable reason for excluding their pleasures and pains from the overall utilitarian calculus. As Jeremy Bentham put it: “they question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?” Our actions have effects on animals, and these consequences cannot be ignored. When one is deciding, then, what the morally right course of action is, the pleasures and pains of animals must be taken into account too. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**