Ethical And Socially Responsible Investment Policies

In the article “Escape from the Western Diet”, Michael Pollan suggest to the people that they should stop eating a western diet because western diet is also responsible for western diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure and many more. In his article he said that “People eating a Western diet are prone to a complex chronic diseases that seldom strike people eating more traditional diets.” He also gave the solution of this problem by telling people to stop eating a western diet. New theories made new treatments to treat different diseases. In his point of view, if people want to escape from western diet they need to stop eating western food daily. He thinks that if people want to stay healthy they should eat food, not too much,

According to Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), 36.5 million Americans currently smoke, that is about fifteen percent of the population which is equal to the combined population of America’s twenty-five largest cities. Although anti-smoking advertisements are shown throughout the United States, people do not take them seriously half the time. The advertisement in this analysis showcases a grayish background, with the colors focusing mainly on a cigarette box that has the cigarettes put into crayon labels and the box also opens like a crayon box. There is also a child’s writing with crayons saying, “Just like mommy.” From this, the image showcases the dangers of smoking and the causes it has on loved ones. This advertisement uses strong ethos, pathos, and logos to get ASH’s point across very clear.

In spite of all advantages mention earlier about ethically and socially responsible business practice, it also has disadvantages, limitation and challenges. The most common and obvious limitation would be the cost that comes together with every investment a business does in order to meet all publicity’s requirements, for instance setting up Ronald McDonald House Charities. Every business has a goal which is at the top of their goal list and it is to be profitable. What is more, it is challenging to maintain the publicity’s and stakeholders’ satisfaction when investing into the society, employees and the environment.

Although tobacco advertisements are banned, people still consume it. The ban started in 1971 and since then has become even more strict on the sponsoring and promotion of tobacco brand logos. Now, all tobacco ads used, dissuade users from consuming. Advertisements in general can be obnoxious and tiresome, but they are sometimes necessary for the seller to get their point across. Ads are either trying to get money from the consumer or driving to change a person’s mind positively. The main reasoning for the creation of advertisements is to persuade the viewer or audience through the evocation of ethos, pathos, and logos, to have a change of mind about the product. The ads I chose are both similar, but have different goals towards their audience.

The roots of the tree suggest the requirement of understanding the conditions that conclude health and ill health; biological inheritance, physical environment, cultural, social, political and economic circumstances. The understanding of who, when and where is affected enables possible interventions to be identified. The trunk of the tree illustrates the importance of organisational commitment to improving health. Lastly, the branches describe key areas for health promotion activity and those elements of the setting that contribute to health. Health promotion works by the belief system. The belief system is when an individual is experiencing change in their health. The belief system is made up of many positive factors such as; health, aesthetic gain, benefits to family, pariah status and financial gain. This belief system can be used in many health issues such as overcoming obesity. There are many positives for overcoming obesity which are; reducing the chance of getting illnesses/diseases, heart disease, infertility, type 2 diabetes, some cancers and strokes. The aesthetic gain It would be that people would lose weight more and then would look/be thinner. Benefits to family The benefits to the family would be that by them being healthier the rest of the family may be influenced to start being healthy to avoid the risk of developing any illness/disease.

Improving lifestyle was given more of an emphasis after statistics showed the trends in obesity and learning that it was causing 9,000 premature deaths per year in the UK. It was also shown to cause heart disease, type 2 diabetes and some types of cancer. Link this up with deaths caused by CHD in the UK shows that people need to learn more about healthy living. Due to these statistics some people are finally starting to realise problems between lifestyle choices and health and therefore quite a few are attempting to alter their lifestyle so as to maintain or proceed with a

Farrelly, M.C., Duke, J.C., Davis, K.C., Nonnemaker, J.M., Kamyab, K., Willet, J.G., & Juster, H.R. (2012). Promotion of smoking cessation with emotional and/or graphic anti-smoking advertising. American journal of preventive medicine, 43(5), 475-482. Doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2012.07.023

The rise of eating healthy even forced some food makers to remove unhealthy ingredients from their products. By targeting healthier and organic foods and ignoring the junk foods, this will increase the eating habits of several teens and adults. This generation needs to change the way they eat because it will show later in the years on their blood pressure on how much they need to eat or what they need to be eating to stay healthy. Those who choose to eat hamburgers, fried chicken, surgery foods are in danger to have a higher rest of an unhealthy body were it will lead to make changes when it is too late and their bodies are already mistreated with all these filthy foods. Now commercials are using good influential information in which it states that 20 min outside doing an activity can help every day. This informs parents to guide their children to go steps and leading them to go out play, run or do a fun activity that will keep the child busy and hyped, this will helps the child by exercising and staying healthy. It also gives tips to feed the child a healthy snack every two or one hour by giving then fruit, vegetable or a small healthy meal to maintain his body strong and energized. This also fits for teens and adults as in going out have a jog, ride a bike or walk every day for an hour or two. Also to maintain a healthy diet and eating healthier. There also information in schools that helps Teens and children, meals in schools changed more healthy foods are giving and less fat and non-organic foods are losing their place in the schools by removing

Many believe that business entities should have an ethical duty to be socially responsible, to work towards increasing its positive effects on society while decreasing its negative effects. Many organizations look for opportunities to be socially responsible while also creating shareholder wealth.

Breaking the habits of a Western diet is what this whole essay focuses on. Eating healthy food is really important because it help to maintain a good healthy body. In Michael Pollan’s essay “Escape from the Western Diet”, he informs people about the western diet and tells them that they need to escape from it. The reason why people should escape from the western diet is to avoid harmful diseases. There are three main points of this essay which Michael Pollan has told and they are; scientists make new theories of nutritionist in which food industries supports those theories by making products and the medical industries make new drugs of medications to support those theories. I agree with Michael Pollan that the companies and especially the food companies are responsible for the western diseases as they make new products day by day with lots of calories, fat, and many other different nutrients which can be harmful to the people's health.

Nowadays, every individual in modern society gets confronted with signs of what we should wear, have and be. It is everywhere around us, especially with the advancement of technology. Television, music, movies and advertisement are tools that affect every individual. The interpretation of the signs depend on the person experiences, background, culture, language and country. Even if they are not consciously aware of it. For instance, taking in consideration cigarettes. My opinion about cigarettes is not of sexual attractiveness as it is suggested in this article. On the contrary, my meaning for cigarettes is repulsiveness. Nevertheless, I do agree that at a certain point, cigarettes are a ritual in most adolescent lives.Not of sexual nature but more for the coolness, forbidden effect and belonging status. Cigarettes like any other sign evoke different interpretations by different people. Individual's gesture, movement, words, glances can express more meaning than smoke and how to hold a cigarette.If for instance, one takes a couple on a dance floor.The way they move towards each other, touch each other and glance at each other, in the appropriate environment of a nightclub is more sexual than smoke.

The social etiology of the disease depends on the underlying causes of the disease which is directly related to the risk factors adopted by the people for unhealthy behaviors. These causes and factors lie in the sociocultural environment. For example heart disease, the outcome of the disease is dependent on bad eating habits, excessive use of tobacco and sedentary lifestyle. All these are considered to be the environmental influences and the researchers are working on to change these factors with the aspect of health promotion (Glass & McAtee, 2006).

Advertising for tobacco is another source that cause teenagers smoke and adults smoke. Recently, tobacco companies have found new ways to promote their products to youth. They support their sporting events, concerts and movie. Many people favor idols or stars smoke in the movies and they seems very cool. And Teenagers are curious about imitation. Smoke containing nicotine acts as a stimulant to the brain. Nicotine in the bloodstream acts to make the smoker feel calm. In fact, nicotine is a lethal poison, affecting the heart, blood vessels, and hormones. Tobacco smoke contains over 4,000 chemical compounds. More than 60 of these are known or suspected to cause cancer. What is more, secondhand smoke can be harmful in many ways and it ruins thousands of non-smoking people, children's health. The US Surgeon General and the US Food and Drug Administration are among those who have examined the evidence and concluded that tobacco advertising does increase overall consumption. If we ban adverts on tobacco products, they will gradually lose their appeal, because they won't symbolize anything "cool", "smart" or "amazing". Tobacco products will become ordinary consumption goods and thus the number of young people who take up smoking in order to "be somebody" will decrease.

The side of smoking that is rarely published will be explored in this paper. The side that only a smoker knows, not the side the governments and health agencies provide the news media with. This information is valuable because it is not very well exposed to the world. This essay will answer the question, “Why do you smoke cigarettes?”.

This problem of creating a trendy stylish image of cigarettes are hurting many people by recruiting new young smokers from all around the world, winning over sales due to the false image and then addiction. Third world countries are hurt the most by this unethical way of advertising because they don’t have money for this extra expense that they now need due to addiction. Critics claim that sophisticated promotions in a unsophisticated societies entice people who cannot afford the necessities of life to spend money on luxury- and a dangerous one at that. Every cigarette manufacturer is in the image business, and tobacco companies say their promotional slant is both reasonable and common. They point out that in the Third World a lot of people cannot understand what is written in the ads anyway, so the ads zero in on the more understandable visual image. Due to actions such as this and the negative effect it has on people economically and physically, this is a good example of how the tobacco industry is unethical.