The Problem: The Case of the Bug Spray As a bio-tech firm, you are concerned ove

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The Problem: The Case of the Bug Spray

As a bio-tech firm, you are concerned over the outcry against genetically modified food products. A sister division is working on production of genetically modified seeds which will (in your mind) be much more disease resistant and nutritionally sound and another which is concerned with products which will enhance the performance of athletes.

However, you have a new twist on the situation. Evidentially, in California which is where one of your test fields is located, there has been an outbreak of a particularly nasty bug which causes leaf blight. The Executive Committee has asked you to consider this situation and give it your considered opinion. The company is not too worried because your product should be resistant to this particular infestation. However, the various other farmers in the area are gathering together to request that the State of California spray all of the farms in the area with a chemical which will take care of the problem but, if the chemical gets on the fields of the organic farmers, the farms will lose their organic status. The Executive Committee of your company has been approached by two groups. One is representative of the traditional farmer which represents about 80% of the market. This group is requesting your support for the general spray to protect their crops. The second group is the organic farmers who represent about 20% of the market. They are concerned that if the general spray happens they will lose their organic certification which takes about 5 years to earn. Thus, they will basically be out of business. The Executive Team has asked you to write a white paper on this issue which will become the official company position.

Please complete each section of this worksheet.

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Now we identify the issue, as well as the elements in tension. Please address the following questions:

What is the very specific issue to be resolved? At this stage the person making the decision states the issue in the form of a question to be answered. The person making the decision must make sure the question is an ethical question, not a technical question about how to do a job or a matter of personal preference.

What are the values/virtues in tension? Make a preliminary identification of the values/virtues in tension. What are the tensions in the right treatment of people? What are the tensions in the right use of property ... both individual rights and community rights (such as roads and parks)? What are the tensions concerning the right use of power... how have those who do not have access to information, resources, or autonomy been protected?

Explanation / Answer

Ans: Talking about the whole process, according to me the actual and the ethical actor in the process is the land, on which the cultivation is going to be done, if the cultivation of the crops done is not accurate there is a leaf light, due to which the crops are getting impacted and hence the land is to be considered for getting the production on to the good terms, if the crops are not getting the certification or as well the land is not getting certified, than the product which is been cultivated is not upto the mark, hence for getting the solution for it, hence in the whole proces the ethical actor is land

2) Who or what group will be taking the action in this particular problem?

Ans: The major group which will be taking action against this are the traditional farmers which are 85% and organic farmers with 15%, which are going to take decison for the same, hence they are going to decide about the crops and decide is the whole products to be taken care of or to be decided are they required or not.

3) Who are the stakeholders? Who are those people and/or groups to which we owe a duty? What are the express and implied agreements that you have with each of the constituents?

Ans: The stakeholders are people in the society, who are going to use the crops and hence this are the crops which needs to be forwarded to them for their intakes, hence it is to be taken care of for getting the whole crops are to be of good quality and this crops should be taken care of, hence while getting into the agreements, place, first from the land for getting clearity, then from the farmers about the product which is accurate, and than from the government for getting the whole land cleared up for the cultivation and the future project.

3) What is the context and assumptions? What are the facts that need to be considered? In framing the context, what assumptions as to competing rights and responsibilities are present?

Ans: The major context and assumption for the process is to make the land and the crops which have grown on the surface to take care of it, as it will be going into the market and will be consumed by the people in the society as this will be very much dangerous if it goes into the society and it will be very against the environment, the major thing to be considered is about the land as this land will be very much been used for the future reference as well so to make the land for using further the whole process of getting it certitfied is very much necessary as this will help the land to make the whole land free from the whole process and it the whole land is very much in the zone of danger than make the land getting certified, that it cannot be used for future for any other company to use this land and cultivate the porduct which becomes dangerous for the society

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