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This essay will discuss selected core global issues related to the livestock and agricultural businesses, focusing on, when not run ethically and sustainably, their harm to the environment, their relation to global water scarcity, the destabilization of communities through child labor and the inhumane treatment of animals and this is just to name a few. It will then go on to discuss ways in which these companies can behave ethically and that it is achievable through sustainable and ethical practices when companies do not think solely about profit. ‘The demand to produce low-cost animal agricultural products has caused animal agribusinesses to treat animals as objects and commodities' (Veganoutreach.org, 2014) and in the Journal of animal Science, …show more content…

For example, Woolworth Pty Ltd set a Sustainability Strategy in 2007 (Woolworthslimited.com.au, 2012), which set a range of goals for the business to improve its sustainability and reduce its impact on the environment. A couple of key issues the strategy put in place were to reduce their water usage by 200 million liters per year and to develop and implement policies for ethical sourcing including animal welfare and the use of palm oil which lawfully, they should be doing already as globally and domestically, governments have responded to the challenge of global food markets and decreased safety interpretations of consumers by suggesting new legislation and regulations which should ensure safe and animal-friendly production and save resources (Poetz, Haas, and Balzarova, 2012). To organize the tasks, people, and other resources in order to make these goals happen Woolworths Pty Limited, assured their farmers, producers and facilities were using water as sustainably as possible through improved fittings, equipment, and infrastructure. Woolworths Pty Limited led by example to influence their employees and suppliers, to work hard in order to maintain these ethical practices and finally they controlled these ethical goals by monitoring the progress of these goals using a third party factory audit program (Anon, …show more content…

According to (Kinicki, Scott-Ladd, and Perry, n.d.), philanthropy is ‘making charitable donations towards organizations which benefit mankind'. Thus, agribusinesses can lead by example through donating to nonprofit organizations, which work towards reducing these global environmental issues, therefore showing their consumers and society at large that they are in fact giving back to the community and the environment. For example, Dick Smith Foods donated $1 million to charity in 2014 alone (Dicksmithfoods.com.au, 2016). To decide, to which charities, Dick Smith Foods encouraged supporters to take a photograph with any Dick Smith Food product and email it through along with a nomination for the charity they wished to nominate. Some of the charities, which received donations include, For the Animals Inc, Sunshine Butterflies Inc and Can Too Foundation. This is a precise example of philanthropy and a company behaving ethically, as it gave the consumers a chance to engage in the companies ethical practices and have a say in where their money

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