PROFITS 3. FOOD SAFETY: THE CASE OF BMI Jose works as a clerk at the headquarters of Best Meat International LLC (BMI)_ a USbased food processing company With a history of over 60 years the company has established a global foodprocessing network that supplies meat products to some ofthe restaurant chains in the world, During the course of his work' .lose comes across documents that suggest one subSIdiary company of BMI has actually been repackaging and selling chicken and beef past their expiration dates in some developing countries, Jose is shocked He knows that the Food and Drug Administration in the United States has banned such practices, In the US' government regulations are very strict about the food production dates and their selleby dates but in some developing countries whose quality assurance supervision is lacking or outmoded some businesses are likely to explore such loopholes Even though some expired meat products may not cause serious health issues, such practice presents great potential threat to public health in those countries Jose gathers together the appropriate documents and takes them to his immediate superior Nancy Nancy says "Look I don't think that sort ofthing is your concern, or mine We're in charge of record-keeping not making deciSions about the product quality, | suggest you drop it\" The next day. .lose decides to go one step further He makes an appointment and talks to Mike, the CEO of the subsidiary company Mike is clearly irritated, Mike says' "This isn't your concern Look. these are the sorts of CUSLELIll'Tg moves that let a company like ours compete With our global competitors Besides everyone knows that the regulations in the US are super cautious and these developing countries are not clearly prohibitive There's no real danger to anyone who consumes such products l conSider this matter closed " Jose considers his situation The message from his superiors was loud and clear He strongly suspects that making further noises about this issue could jeopardize hisyob Further, he generally has faith in the company's management They've always seemed like honest. trustworthy people But he was troubled by this apparent disregard for public health of people In other countries On the other hand he asks himself whether maybe Mike was right in arguing that the danger was minimal Jose emailed an expert who is working for the food safety dwision ofan international organization that he found via the lnternet This expert told him that there was mass public outrage in those countries toward their quality assurance administrations and toward foreign companies like BMl who are getting away With selling defective products in their countries, Write a roughly 500- 750-word essay analyzing this scenario. Quality of writing is a substantial consideration in the amount of credit given. Questions: Who are the stakeholders who arerWill be affected In this scenario? What are the ethical issues that are involved? Be sure to distingUish between issues that are primarily righteandrwrong leg , ethical or moral lapses) versus those that are rightiahderight issues in which there are simply tough tradeeoffs of appropriate competing values. Does the global context make a difference? Why and how? What are the opportunities threats, and alternatives involved in the situation? What recommendations do you have in how the situation could bershould have been resolved? OR, state it no resolution is necessary and the reasons why the status duo is acceptable