Transcript ethics - Students

Bell Quiz
• What role does ethics play in an FFA chapter?
Ethical Issues in SAE
and FFA Management
AGSC 405
Facilitating Complete Secondary
Agricultural Science Programs
Today YWBAT…
1. Define ethics and character
2. Evaluate situations that require ethical decisions
3. Determine unethical behavior at livestock shows
Can we have Blue Ribbon Youth
and Blue Ribbon Animals?
YES – With a lot of hard work
and commitment to do the
RIGHT thing!!!
“We must
always keep
our focus on
the right end
of the halter.”
Cheating
• Students who have:
• Cheated during a school test at least once
• Middle School - 54%
• High School - 70%
• At least once, refused to cheat even though others were
cheating
• Middle School - 72%
• High School - 73%
Stealing
• Students who have:
• Stolen something from a store at least once
• Middle School - 31%
• High School - 47%
• Stolen something from a parent at least once
• Middle School - 24%
• High School - 31%
• Stolen something from a friend at least once
• Middle School - 23%
• High School - 25%
Lying
• Students who have:
• Lied to a parent at least once
• Middle School - 88%
• High School - 92%
• Lied to a teacher at least once
• Middle School - 70%
• High School - 82%
News Headlines
335th Judicial District Court Action – June 1, 1999
• The “win at any cost” attitude has resulted in
probated sentences for two Agua Dulce residents
involved in a scheme to show a pig in San Angelo
that had been “sifted” from the Houston Livestock
Show.
• Trial dates for three other defendants allegedly
involved in the scheme are expected to be set later
this summer.
News Headlines
“4-H Club Adviser Indicted in Steer Tampering Case”
– Circleville, Ohio (1995)
• Ohio Department of Agriculture Investigators said
urine tests on the fair’s grand champion and reserve
grand champion steers revealed they had been treated
with chlorpromazine, an oral tranquilizer.
News Headlines
“Livestock Shows Plagued by Cheating” -- The Wall
Street Journal, Texas Journal (1996)
• Until the recent commotion, Matthew Stork’s father
never thought that occasionally injecting Lasix into a
pig was cheating. But Matthew confesses he
sometimes felt a little guilty about taking the easy way
out, knowing that the other kids had worked hard to
slim down their pigs.
News Headlines
“In Animal Husbandry Contests, Cheating Spreads” -- San
Antonio Express News (1996)
• But that wholesome image is foundering upon a national
scandal, the apparent climax to more than a decade of
increasingly cutthroat competition. Since the 1980’s, the
soaring amounts in winners’ purses - which can range from
several thousand dollars to $500,000 - have given rise to
many ways to cheat: from dye jobs to cosmetic surgery,
from hiring professional groomers to injection of vegetable
oil or saline solution for smoothing out flabby skin.
News Headlines
“Probe Dropped -- Denver Steer Exhibitors Accept
Full Responsibility” -- The Southwest Stockman (1995)
• The exhibitors of the 1995 National Western
champion steers have accepted responsibility for
traces of clenbuterol in animals, ending an
investigation into who actually administered the
illegal growth promotant.
News Headlines
“Young People Should be Taught Values, Not to Win at
all Costs” -- Ann Landers (1995)
• I would like to know what kind of FFA we are
running at Woodville High School. I was one of
many who stood by helplessly and watched an FFA
student murder his pig at the Tyler County Fair in
Texas.
“Learning by
Example”
By: Larry Mrozinski
Youth do not
automatically develop
good moral character;
therefore, conscientious
efforts must be made to
help young people
develop the values and
abilities necessary for
moral decision making
and conduct.
Ethics
• Standards of Duty and Virtue That Indicate How We
Should Behave
Two Aspects of Ethics
• Ability to discern right
from wrong, good from
evil and propriety from
impropriety
• Commitment to do
what is right, regardless
of temptations and
pressures to do
otherwise
Is ethics in action
-- Michael Josephson
A Person of Character…
• Knows the difference between right and wrong and
always tries to do what is right
• Does the right thing for the right reason
Is what people think you
are; character is what you
are
-- Michael Josephson
Is revealed by how you
behave when you think no
one is looking.
-- Michael Josephson
Making the Right
Choice
Scenario
What is Considered Unethical
Behavior at Livestock Shows?
• Use of illegal drugs
• Violation of ownership
• Surgery, injection or insertion
• Phenotypically alter the
showing and/or handling
practices
requirements
appearance of animal
of foreign materials
• Use of inhumane fitting,
• Misrepresenting the age of an
• Interference with the judge
• Feeding and care of livestock
• Violation of any rule
animal
projects
• Use of tranquilizers, sedatives
or depressants
and/or show officials
governing the livestock show
Resources Available to You
• Texas Livestock Show Code of Ethics
• Videos by Jeff Goodwin
• Where’s the Beef
• A Question of Ethics
• A Line in the Sand
• CHARACTER COUNTS!SM
• National Livestock Ethics Council
(http://www.lcionline.org/nlec/index.html)
• Leading by Example