ASSIGNMENT

PROFESSIONAL & ETHICAL ISSUES

 PROFESSIONAL RELIABILITY
QUESTION NO:01

Read about the meat farm that caused spread of COVID-19

in USA and liability of the farm owner, although he wasn’t
infected with the notorious virus. Write a brief report on it
clearly indicating about the responsible, liable and
blameworthy personnel in it.

Answer:
The global pandemic has brought catastrophic impacts for the strangulating
economics of global South. But the interesting fact that needs to be brought under
limelight is that the so-called benevolent hegemon US seems helpless just like the
other third world countries.

CASE OF SMITHFIELD PORK FARM:

The case of Smithfield pork farm is much intertwined with economic factor of our
society.
 Everyone was fully aware of the contemporary situation and even after the
employees starting contracting virus the stakeholders refused to seal the
plant.
Despite of just rewriting the facts; if we decipher the story with some academic
discourse in our luggage it would be quite helpful as it would provide authentic
argument supporting the findings.
I. If we classify the people at the plant, there are owners and workers, and both
had their own reservations regarding closure of plant.
II. To find out which party was playing with zillions of lives we need to look
upon the matter on the grass root level.
 Workers are mostly from lower middle class and their status is not more than
a refugee working like a robot to earn a bread for his family. The concerns
of proletariat are genuine as they cannot afford to be unemployed. One even
can't imagine living altogether with his family in a metropolitan city of a
superpower and being jobless. They had to work anyways even if the life of
their beloved ones is at stake.

 Thus, the system that consumes their energies never owns them. The
clutches of capitalism are so widespread that no one can even think of
escaping it. The ferocious nature of capitalists and the barbaric mode of
earning prevails in a dichotomy in the capitalist economies.

 US is profound proponent of capitalist mode of economy and that's why the

Smith field owner never ever thought of the people and their families while
he was outrightly denounce the ideas of lockdown. Capitalist goons just
want to continue their cycle of miting money by whatsoever means. The
coercive nature of capitalism made the employees work even in such
delegate situation.

 The stories of employees even from the different industries has made it quite
clear that it's not actually the owners that are guilty but it's the system that
has been structured by some corporate elites in such a manner that is legally
bound and coerce the proletariats to spend their lives on others command.

 The free will that was promised by Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and
the actual father of modern capitalism Adam Smith has been vanished from
our social fabric. Thus, the person who is to be blamed for the crisis at
Smithfield is the capitalist who is instrumentalizing the reason/rationally of
the minds of workers; making them work hard in such harsh conditions or
else they have been told loud and clear that they may die of hunger if not by
the notorious COVID-19.