Are Lobsters Pain-Free? “Is it all right to boil a sentient creature alive just for our gustatory pleasure?” David Foster Wallace, author of “Consider the Lobster” asks this question throughout his article. He explains how lobsters are considered as low class food because of its living conditions. Thus, most people do not consider the lobsters or simply do not care about them. He explains that killing a lobster for our own pleasure is not right; it is unethical.
corporation A group of individuals, created by law or under authority of law, having a continuous existence independent of the existences of its members, and powers and liabilities distinct from those of its members. I'm very surprised by the number of people on the "good" side. The basic premise behind the idea of a "corporation" is a way for the people who run a corporation to absolve themselves of any responsibility, while at the same time reaping any financial rewards. exa. AstraZeneca as a coporation can use their vast wealth to push a drug through the FDA they know will kill X number of people.
EST1 Task 1 A. Evaluate Company Q's current attitude toward social responsibility. The company’s current attitude toward social responsibility isn’t responsible at all. The fact that they are willing to allow food to be threw away that could be given to a food bank illustrates the company’s unethical approach to social responsibility. Placing profits above people isn’t socially responsible but is rather sociopathic and a microcosm of the larger problem that entails the current Capitalistic system that is used across the world.
The article “Junking Junk Food”, by Judith Warner, is one that explains two sides to the national obesity problem in the United States. She starts her article by talking about Sarah Palin's objections to the “Obama nanny state” which she believes is out to infringe upon the peoples right to eat whatever they please (401). Glenn Beck is also cited in her paper as objecting to the idea of government regulation. His anger over the issue includes reports of government health inspectors shutting down a 7 year old's lemonade stand (401). With about two-thirds of Americans being obese, the Obama administration has been fighting hard to help Americans with the issue of obesity.
Jessica Ely Professor Lawrence ENGL1020 20 September 2012 Blame the Eater As Americans we are always hearing “don’t blame yourself for being obese blame the government.” Balko begins his essay with telling us that Time magazine and ABC News will host a three-day talk on obesity. The author says that the “summit promises to be a pep rally for media, nutrition activists, and policy makers” (395). Responsibility and government control over health care is the issue that Radly Balko tackles in “What You Eat Is Your Business”. The author argues that Americans are not taking responsibility for their eating habits and making it the general publics health problem. Balko feels that the issue of being obese should be your own problem and not the entire United States, and the government should not get “between us and our waistline”.
Furthermore, Valenzuela portrays fast food juggernauts like ‘KFC’ and ‘McDonalds’ in a deceitful and untrustworthy manner with the intended effect of evoking guilt and shame upon those who consume these foods. Valenzuela asserts that the ‘tower burger’, advertised at the cricket for KFC supplies ‘about a third of a typical child’s energy requirements’. This further authenticates his argument by exploiting his credentials as a medical researcher to illustrate the ‘junk food’ chain in a negative
Food Inc. Film Critique October 4, 2012 Food Inc. Film Critique Food Inc. is an important documentary that aims to change the way America eats, the way the food is produced, and to nourish our understanding on how the American food industry functions. Why choose an organic salad instead of a ninety-nine cents burger? Filmmaker Robert Kenner features and builds on the writings, Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser and The Omnivore's Dilemma author Michael Pollan, to create an essential picture of the food we eat in America and what it means for the health of future generations. The film maker believes his vision is best and the goal to produce and eat more organic foods is realistic. However, eating healthier is more expensive than eating
Schools across the country have already begun to make changes to the health options they offer on the schools campuses. Some senators have created what they call a “fat tax” which it’s supposed to be a tax on food with high caloric content. Balko states that Congress is considering menu-labeling as its new project to force restaurants to send all their items for analysis at laboratories. All of this according to Balko is the incorrect way to deal with the problem. He thinks instead of forcing companies to change the way they do their business, such as changing the food options available, our
The ‘seduced’ consumer is one with no restrictions; i.e. money etc, being a seller’s favourite type of buyer, while a ‘repressed’ buyer may be restricted by money or disabilities etc. This type of buyer has less favour with sellers. A consumer society is still based on inequalities and exclusions (Hetherington, 2009, p30) There is also a minority of consumers classed as ‘oppositional’, this group of people tend to oppose the big supermarkets and retail parks in favour of small businesses, for political and/or environmentally reasons, those who like to buy organic from farmers’ markets etc, “reducing carbon footprint and recycling to create a vision of consumption based more on personal thrift and social responsibility” (Hetherington, 2009, p47-48) rather than being a ‘seduced’ consumer. Supermarkets’ buying power creates a ‘zero-sum’ effect, where not everyone benefits.
Never the less, there is a major exception to the general concept of limited liability. There are certain circumstances in which courts of law will have look through the corporation that is lifting the veil of incorporation, otherwise known as piercing the veil and hold the shareholders of the company directly and personally liable for the obligations of the company. The veil doctrine is invoked when shareholders blur the distinction between the shareholders and the corporation. It is worthy of note that although a separate legal entity, a corporation can only act through human agents that compose it and as a result, there are two main ways through which accompany becomes liable in corporate law that is through direct liability (direct infringement) and through secondary liability (acts of its human agents acting in the course of their employment. It has been observed in DUNLOP NIGERIAN INDUSTRIES LTD.