Food/Business Ethics
Those who covered the 2010 compre on Babette's Feast regarding food, as well as essays on environment may find the following articles useful.....
In the compre, the writer raised the point that the food we consume is at odds with major concerns of the world, such as endangered species, cruel treatment of the animals, and exploitation of workers who are not paid fair wages.....you can see these mentioned in the following articles....
Food ethics, by extension, also relates to business ethics, as some of the food we consume are business empires in themselves.
Article 4 below, which is in Chinese, talks about how the flying foxes are kept in cram cages; they are needed to feed on the coffee beans, as it is from their dung (i.e. waste matter) that the most expensive coffee in he world is derived! Yes, you heard it right! People are willing to pay S$60 per cup of such coffee in top hotels here.....
Sample Qn:
1. Should profits be the sole motive when it comes to running a business?
2. What we need to do is to get the common man on board, otherwise the environment is doomed. Do you agree? (TPJC Prelim 2011)
3. Environmental conservation is futile without government intervention. To what extent is this statement true? (ACJC Prelim 2012)
4. Environmentalism is a lost cause in our consumerist world. Discuss. (ACJC Prelim 2011)
Article 1: http://jgcm.webs.com/McDonald.doc (source: Yahoo News Singapore, 22 Nov 2011)
In the compre, the writer raised the point that the food we consume is at odds with major concerns of the world, such as endangered species, cruel treatment of the animals, and exploitation of workers who are not paid fair wages.....you can see these mentioned in the following articles....
Food ethics, by extension, also relates to business ethics, as some of the food we consume are business empires in themselves.
Article 4 below, which is in Chinese, talks about how the flying foxes are kept in cram cages; they are needed to feed on the coffee beans, as it is from their dung (i.e. waste matter) that the most expensive coffee in he world is derived! Yes, you heard it right! People are willing to pay S$60 per cup of such coffee in top hotels here.....
Sample Qn:
1. Should profits be the sole motive when it comes to running a business?
2. What we need to do is to get the common man on board, otherwise the environment is doomed. Do you agree? (TPJC Prelim 2011)
3. Environmental conservation is futile without government intervention. To what extent is this statement true? (ACJC Prelim 2012)
4. Environmentalism is a lost cause in our consumerist world. Discuss. (ACJC Prelim 2011)
Article 1: http://jgcm.webs.com/McDonald.doc (source: Yahoo News Singapore, 22 Nov 2011)
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| Article 2: Workers go on strike on pig farm near Batam |
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