Should the use of animal testing be necessary for a company’s pharmaceutical research? Under what circumstances should a business be forced to end productivity? Early on Wednesday morning PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) released a horrifying video of the company Eli Lilly, a pharmaceutical research company, using animals when testing their products. Not only is the company’s reliance on animal testing unethical, but also the way they are shown to treat the animals is malicious and revolting.
An employee of PETA has been working at a North Carolina plant since December, wearing a hidden camera under his coat and documenting the behaviour of this company towards animals. He recorded the employees of Eli Lilly to be abusing the animals in a variety of physical and verbal ways. In one incident he captured “a women grabbing a dog by its collar and throwing it against the wall.” (Ted McKinney). Choices businesses make greatly effect the productivity and success of their company, however Eli Lilly was using deceptive marketing to advertise their products, omitting important information that could be against the buyer’s morals.
Consumer choice would be greatly affected if the organization’s manufacturing process became worldly known, leading to a poor reputation. Alternative brands of medication that did not associate with Eli Lilly’s product would be alternatively favoured; thus establishing a great weakness in the company.
