When i think about business ethics, the first thing crashes into my mind is the terrible food safety of China. Most Chinese businesses are so greedy that they only focus on their profits, especially on Chinese Food Industry. It is extremely dangerous for Chinese citizens to eat food because large number of fakes was found in different kinds of food. Recently, rat meat was found being passed off as lamb in many Chinese hotpot restaurants. The production factories which sold fake lamb to hotpot restaurants are accused by the government. The emergence of fake lamb is the despair of Chinese citizens and it really shocked consumers by confusing them what to eat.
It is my personal belief that both the producers and hotpot restaurants not only ignored the business ethics, but also ruined it because some of consumers felt sick after they ate in hotpot restaurants. Stakeholders such as consumers, executives of Chinese Food Department and lovely rats got side-effect from the fake lamb. Government should take actions to avoid these fake foods, such as enhancing the strength of supervising on food production and so on.
Links:
http://europe.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2013-05/06/content_16479943.htm
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1228960/rat-meat-sold-lamb-shanghai-police-say
http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=20130507000040&cid=1102