Reflect: If you choose the environment subject heading, reflect on the sheer density of chickens raised at any given time in the Perdue facilities. The disposal of their discarded remains and their processing for distribution, either individually and most definitely together, pose a number of environmental concerns.
Once you have completed the indicated readings and videos, reflect on the ethical theories that we have covered in the discussions thus far and identify one that you want to apply for your analysis in your discussion post.
Also, reflect on the regulations (or lack thereof) in the factory farming industry in order to be able to examine how our nation’s laws affect the operations of the business. You will need to research the applicable laws on the factory farming industry.
Finally, since Perdue Farms is an American corporation, reflect on the mixed economic system in the United States in order to articulate the setting for the operations of factory farming, and then, be able to analyze the ethical actions of Perdue given this setting.
Write: In the first part of your initial post, you will need to introduce the Perdue case within the particular subject heading that you have chosen. In this introduction, you will also need to (1) articulate the relevant characteristics of our mixed economic system and (2) present the regulations for the factory farming industry. These will provide the setting for you to be able to examine how the nation’s laws affect its operations.
In the second part of your initial post, present your analysis of the problem in a way that identifies which entities (Perdue as a corporation, the economic system in the USA, the regulatory control of the state, or all of these) have a role in the problem that you have presented. In your analysis, you must assess the negative effects of the interplay between business activity and one of the following: the environment, advertising, consumer safety, or corporate social responsibility. Your focus must be an ethical analysis of this interplay, and it must be well supported by reliable and/or scholarly sources by clearly identifying the ethical theory that you are applying in your analysis.

Required Resources
• Carman, N. (2009, March 30). Hydrogen sulfide needs hazardous air pollutant listing under CAA Title III [Letter to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency]. Retrieved from http://www.earthworksaction.org/files/publications/H2SLetterToEPA.pdf
o Letter requesting EPA to list Hydrogen Sulfide in air emissions from various industrial wastes (such as those from slaughterhouses, including chicken factory farms with waste incinerators) as a hazardous air pollutant.

• Heinzen, T., Frantz, T., Nivens, J., Kimbrell, G., Jarrett, J., Malott, M., … Edwards, S. (2011). Petition for the regulation of ammonia as a criteria pollutant under clean air act sections 108 and 109 [Citizen petition to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency]. Retrieved from http://www.environmentalintegrity.org/documents/PetitiontoListAmmoniaasaCleanAirActCriteriaPollutant.pdf
o This is a petition to the EPA for the regulation of ammonia as a pollutant.

• Hoover, J. (2013). Can’t you smell that smell? Clean air act fixes for factory farm air pollution. Stanford Journal of Animal Law and Policy, 6, 1-29. Retrieved from http://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1043&context=student_pubs
o The article argues that the EPA should regulate the emissions of hydrogen sulfide and ammonia, two pollutants for which factory farms are major sources.

• U.S. Government Accountability Office. (2008). Concentrated animal feeding operations: EPA needs more information and a clearly defined strategy to protect air and water quality from pollutants of concern (GAO-08-944). Retrieved from http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08944.pdf
o This is a governmental report on concentrated animal feeding operations (i.e., factory farms).
• CompassionUSA. (2014, December 3). Chicken factory farmer speaks out [Video file]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/YE9l94b3x9U
o Chicken farmer opens his farm that is run by Perdue in order to share the realities of raising chicken according to the contractual arrangements with Perdue. Transcript
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• PerdueChicken. (2014, August 1). Perdue cartoon commercial–Fresh taste [Video file]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/jz2jkpN_DGo
o This is a cartoon commercial aired by Perdue to promote the freshness and quality of Perdue chickens, who are depicted as living well. Transcript
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