PHI_445 Week 3 Discussion, Current Business Problems: Case Studies: British Petroleum

Out of all the chicken consumed in the United States, Perdue produces the most. 9,900 concentrated animal feeding operations farms produce approximately 80% of the meat consumed by Americans averaging 270 pound per person every year (Fieser, 2015). Utilitarianism is the moral good of pleasure and is achieved by acting in ways that bring about increased pleasure and reduced pain, and results that appeal to the greater good. Shouldn’t everything affected by an action be taken into consideration-whether it is human or not? “Jeremy Bentham incorporated the essential basis of moral equality into his utilitarian system of ethics in the formula: “Each to count for one and none for more than one” (Singer, 1989, p. 3). Henry Sidgwick, another utilitarian stated that “the good of any one individual is of no more importance, from the point of view of the Universe, than the good of any other” (Singer, 1989, p. 3). Therefore, if something has the capacity to suffer then it should be taken into consideration