ETHICS of REGULATIONS

From the “Regulations” page there is one emerging trend evident in developing and developed countries like Chile and Norway respectively. There is deviation from a social consensus ethic towards a personal consensus ethic that is being created on the governmental level via relaxed regulations and encouragement of corporate takeover.

NORWAY

• Decentralization of salmon industry by Norwegian government
• Lead to corporate takeover
• Corporate tax contributions and lobbies deters the government from making stricter welfare regulations
• Public influence on government is less since government is not directly accountable over salmon farming industry as it was prior to the 1990 FSO bankrupcy
• This impairs the animal rights movement
• On the industrial level, corporations are more likely to conduct their salmon farming operations with a profit-maximization goal, disregarding societies ethical values
• Corporations consider salmon welfare according to their personal consensus ethic

CHILE

• Relaxed Chilean regulations on industries and poor method of assessing salmon welfare state on farms have encouraged corporate expansion of salmon farming
• Private Corporations are treating salmon according to their own accord; There is very little animal welfare influence
• Chilean public is concerned about improving their economy and standard of living over salmon welfare
• Thus on the governmental level and social level, salmon welfare is not that important
• This allows corporate farms to treat salmon according to their own “personal consensus ethic”