1. A company in England slaughtered 70,000 baby ostrich chicks each year for their meat. It told a teen magazine that it would stop if it received enough complaints. Analyze this policy, practice, and public statement using the concepts discussed in the chapter.
2. A Nike ad in the U.S. magazine Seventeen showed a picture of a girl, aged perhaps 8 or 9. The ad read, If you let me play . . . I will like myself more.
I will have more self-confidence.
I will suffer less depression.
I will be 60 percent less likely to get breast cancer.
I will be more likely to leave a man who beats me.
I will be less likely to get pregnant before I want to.
I will learn what it means to be strong.
If you let me play sports.
Assess this ad in terms of chapter concepts surrounding ethics and social responsibility. What questions would you ask in doing this analysis?