Corporations are responsible for the impacts of its decisions and activities on society, the environment, and its own prosperity (What is Corporate Social Responsibility). The practice of selling contaminated product to a market, regardless of which market it is, goes against a corporation's social responsibility. International markets should have the same respect as the home markets for any corporation. There is also the utilitarianism doctrine that says that virtue is based on utility and the conduct should be directed toward promoting the greatest happiness of the greatest number of persons (Utilitarianism). The greatest number of people being served would be the consumers that would consume the products, not the employees in the company. The UN Global Compact also has principles for businesses operating on an international basis. "Principal 1: Businesses should support and respect the protection of internationally proclaimed human rights" and "Principal 2: Businesses should make sure...
The practice of selling the contaminated corn to the Mexico market is not supporting human rights and is being complicit in human rights abuses because there is no concern for human health of the consumers that will be consuming products with the contaminated corn. The U.S. Law states that corn contaminated with aflatoxin cannot be used for edible products sold in the United States. By doing so, it would bring about fines to the company.
2. The suggestions in the suggestion box both portray the corporate cultural attitude of doing what it takes to get the job done where employees can keep their jobs, and the moral issue of using contaminated product knowing that it is contaminated and there is a chance of someone getting sick, or even death, with the contamination. Some of the employees are afraid of losing their jobs and only thinking of the financial security where one of them is actually thinking…
