Ethics Vs Bananas

Ethical Dilemmas Kevin Brock April 26, 2015 CWV 101: Christian Worldview Instructor: Peter Rasor People from all walks of life face many ethical dilemmas. These dilemmas have consequences. Our worldview determines how we deal with these dilemmas, and guides us to the right decisions. In this essay, I will examine an ethical issues through my

Commodity Chain Paper: Banana Republic A Paper Presented to Dr. Jennifer Anderson In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for ANTH 115 Emerging Global Cultures By Miguel Huerta October 14, 2015 Word Count: 1706 Banana is a commodity that is widely used worldwide. Bananas are neither too extravagant, nor too expensive meaning that anyone and any level of socio-economic status can purchase them, from the very poor to the very wealthy. Bananas can be found at any brand name store, farmers market, or flea market. Bananas are commodities that are highly valued, traded, and desired. The success of the banana can be attributed to the fact that it can be grown and harvested all year long in different parts of the world. The success lies in the mass production, distribution and consumption of these goods. However, there is an ugly reality people are exploited, countries and people are complete dependent economically on bananas, and countries and terrain are destroyed by those corporations that benefit the most from the distribution of bananas.

Stephen J. A. Ward said in “Ethics in a Nutshel” “The analysis, evaluation, and promotion of correct conduct and/or good character, according to the best available standards is identified as ethics” (Behrens and J. Rosen 264). One of my best friends is an extremely intelligent person who achieves excellent grades in all the subjects except English. He took the full senior project from another friend who graduated last year. We often hang out, and do our projects together. A week before submission, I asked him if he could proof read mine and I would proof read his. As soon as I start reading, I was getting angry and frustrated with the level of vocabulary, sentence formation, and grammar he used, I knew there was no way an ESL student could

The country has itself been fighting an avian flu outbreak, culling 34 million birds so far this year” (The New York Times). The types of decisions might managers have made for him/her due to the market structure characteristics, the manager might have to decide how to make a profit due to the many sellers selling identical profits. For example, in the book it said “The same crops grown by different farmers are largely interchangeable. According to the United States Department of Agriculture monthly reports, in 2015, U.S. corn farmers received an average price of $6.00 per bushel and wheat farmers received an average price of $6.00 per bushel. A corn farmer who attempted to sell at $7.00 per bushel, or a wheat grower who attempted to sell for $8.00 per bushel, would not have found any buyers. A perfectly competitive firm will not sell below the equilibrium price either. Why should they when they can sell all they want at the higher price? Other examples of agricultural markets that operate in close to perfectly competitive markets are small roadside produce markets and small organic farmers” (Principles of Economics, pg.

I played the trading around the world game on the International Monetary Fund website and decided to play as Sophie the trader from Europe. I started with 9000 US dollars and have the god of 1000 kilograms of cheese, 2500 kilograms of fish and 200 pair’s shoes to sale. I

b) Suppliers have low power in the banana industry because they are at the mercy of the buyers, FDA, government import laws, and mother nature. All these factors creates little control for the supplies, and anyone thing can destroy a company.

MEMO To: Chiquita Brands International Introduction: For the subject choosing a strategy to overcome effects of EU’s banana policy, I have gone through the whole issue of EU’s banana policy and its effects on the banana business of Latin America in general and Chiquita Brands International in particular. I have also

7. Supply-Demand Rebalancing in US Market As shown by Exhibit 7, the price of banana in the world market declined from 1992 to 1994. This could be due to the fact that EU import restrictions forced most of Chiquita’s produce found its way into the US domestic market thereby depressing the prices here. This dealt a double blow to Chiquita as this meant its margins in the US domestic market were reduced thereby affecting its revenues.

a. How did the Common Market Organization for Bananas (“CMOB”) affect Chiquita? Six firms dominated the banana industry in the early 1990’s, three from Europe and three from the United States. In 1994, the three United States producers, Chiquita, Dole, and Del Monte, accounted for approximately 72.4% of world banana sales.

What is ethics? Our textbook defines ethics as the study of right and wrong conduct. Who is it that decides what the right and wrong conduct is? We should all have personal ethics, but it is the legislation who decides what out ethics should be as a whole and those are our laws. The main focus of ethics is moral values. If we have a job and know a co-worker is stealing should we tell or not tell? Do we call the police if we know someone is abusing there child or not? In these two examples the ethical choice seems more like common sense, yet some people would do nothing because they do not want to get involved. Where do we draw the line? That’s why we have laws based on ethical principles so that those who decide not to make ethical

These preferential arrangements gave Caribbean countries the primary source of their income and a contributed significantly to the social fabric of the society, through the provision of employment and economic growth. Market forces played a very restricted role in the dynamics of the Caribbean Business Environment which was largely due to these foreign preferential arrangements (e.g. England purchasing sugar from Barbados at premium price even though the same sugar can be sourced from another supplier considerably cheaper). However, organizations such as World Trade Organisation (WTO) have lobbied in favor of the removal of these trading arrangements, sighting that these forms of intervention prevent the law of demand and supply from efficiently allocating resources and result in market failure. Therefore Today’s Caribbean economic environment has had to evolve rapidly to meet the increasing global demand for high productivity at low cost as a result of global competitive forces.

Ethics Assignment 1. Is whistle blowing violation of positive duty to the employer/organization? Under what conditions an employee can justify such violation?  How exactly is the duty of loyalty owed to the employer/organization weighed against the duty to the public and larger society?

This is now widely used in banana growing. Preference Erosion has had a major impact on the banana growers in the ACP countries in recent years. Preference Erosion is the "decrease in the margin between a preferential tariff rate and the MFN tariff rate originating from tariff liberalization" (Silva, 2010). Many banana growers have preferential trade agreements with many of the developed countries, such as U.S. and Europe. These agreements enable the banana growers to have preferential tariff arrangements with countries when exporting their commodity. Banana's represent a major source of foreign exchange due to their preferential treatment, which in turn allows them to "employ a large proportion of the rural poor and contribute significantly to food security" (Garcia, 2004). Liberalizing agricultural trade could have a negative impact on food security in these ACP countries by increasing the prices of imports rather than exports. By implementing tariff reductions, preferential margins continue to reduce which results in major adjustment costs for these ACP countries. These countries have benefited so much from market access for their exports of bananas, that "preferential access may in some cases have constrained efforts to improve production costs or processing efficiencies" (Garcia, 2004). Multilateral liberalization will therefore erode margins,

After the research finds out that price is a factor to cause the gap, it will continue to investigate more on to what extend the price offers convinced customer to unethically purchase and abandon their ethical intention. As shown on figure 4.4.2, the mean scores tend to increase along with the increasing in the degree of price reduction of unethical products for both Thais and UK charts. This means that both nations tend to accept unethical garment if it offer a price reduction. Also, on every degrees of price saving, Thai have more tendency to buy unethically made cloth than UK. To clarify, both of the chart from Thailand and UK show a linear distribution and have a positive relationship between price reduction and unethical purchasing behaviour. This is another evidence to suggest that the rival of ethical product price is a factor that makes people neglect their ethical goals. Also, it suggests that price sensitivity of customers are a factor that widen the gap. The result is corresponding with Jägel et al. (2012), and Creyer and Ross (1997) as they suggested that without price reduction on ethical product people will find a cheaper alternative and emphasize more on price than ethical issues.

To undertake this study we extensively reviewed published data and grey literature from national programs across the EAC and international sources to establish the best available information on supply and demand for bananas. But in view of the limited and unreliable nature of available data we