Comment on Xinyuan Wang’s blog: http://blogs.ubc.ca/xinyuanwang/2014/09/09/business-ethics-in-starbucks/

http://www.justmeans.com/blogs/starbucks-most-unethical-coffee-chain-in-the-uk

Business ethics is about applying and examining ethics in the business environment. In the case provided in the website above, as the giant of the coffee market, they did not fulfill their business ethic because of the GM growth hormone in their milk which threaten customers’ health.

As Xinyuan mentioned in her blog, “business ethics is related to every individual, to all stakeholders.” The GM growth hormone product Starbucks provided was a negative example of business ethics. It did bring  Starbucks a large number of profits and benefit their stakeholders in some cases, but customers’ benefit can not be guaranteed.

The spokesperson of Starbucks claimed that they were “offering industry-leading environmental performance in coffee production.” This announcement did redeem their business image a little, but I believe the customers’ health must be one of the most significant sources and the basic thing to run their company.