Several of your clients have asked your firm to help them think about where they buy meat and whether they even should have meat products for sale, if they wish to pursue a strongly ethical approach. In some cases, the clients themselves are divided one owner in one family businesses believes that the carbon impact on the climate of meat, combined with animal welfare concerns, means they should sell as little as possible; the other owner of the same business believes that they have a duty to support the small, locally owned, farms that produce high welfare beef and lamb in the fields near to the shop.

Required:

a) Prepare notes for the creation of your report that explain all of the ethical reasons why a shop should not buy or sell any meat products. These notes should focus on how different normative ethical principles apply to this situation, and should use at least four different normative frameworks to create your reasons.

b) Prepare notes that explain how different forms of Moral Disengagement can be used by a client, if they wish to stock and sell meat but are concerned that some people might criticise them for this choice. Be sure to use a range of different forms of disengagement, and relate your answers back to the ethical arguments presented in your answer to part a), and to any other issues that you believe need to be addressed.