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  • Greek deon
  • obligation
  • duty
  • Immanuel Kant
  • Acting on Duty Regardless of Outcome
  • Consequentialism's Foil
  • Ends do not justify means
  • The consequences of actions do not make the decision right or wrong, it is the motives of the person who carries out the actions
  • Carole faced many different duties when making her decision
  • Duty to self
  • Personal values about what kind of farming is right
  • Duties under contract
  • She is an employee of Perdue and agreed to a contract
  • Duty to her family
  • Must provide financial support
  • Duty to animals
  • Ethical treatment of animals

Deontological Ethics

Meredith Cantwell, Elena Gomez, Kate Hay, Kevin Orndorff, Angela Tran

Deontological Ethics

Weaknesses

Strengths

  • Akin to the Golden Rule
  • Acknowledges our lack of control over the future
  • Individualized based on differing personal experiences
  • Allows for personal satisfaction
  • Requires duties to be ranked, but how?
  • Relativism is not considered
  • personal relativism
  • cultural relativism
  • Consequences of action are deemed unimportant

Case Study - Conflicting Duties

Environmental Health

Case Study

Industrial Chicken Farming

  • A case of conflict of duties
  • Serious outbreak of a disease that was killing fish in the Pocomoke River, a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay in 1995 due to excessive runoff from manure spread
  • Neighbors who were watermen were becoming ill
  • Contract with Perdue was terminated when Carole refused to switch to dark tunnel ventilated chicken houses

Is this really farming?

  • Carole Morison
  • Contract chicken farmer for 23 year
  • Contract with Perdue
  • Inside look at industrial chicken farms
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