Ethics toolkit for food businesses launched
16 March 2010
Food businesses throughout the supply chain face daily dilemmas about where their products come from, and who or what is affected by them.
The Food Ethics Council today launches a toolkit to help them get to grips with these issues, introduce key ideas in ethics and provide a framework for decision-making.
Funded by the Naturesave Trust, ’Ethics: a toolkit for food businesses’ contains:
- A crash course in ethics and how it relates to business;
- An ethical decision-making tool;
- Business ethics myth busters; and
- A transparency test.
Dr. Tom MacMillan, Food Ethics Council executive director said: “Ethics can seem a minefield for food businesses, facing so many competing issues, pulled this way and that by different interest groups, and under pressure to do things that might dent their bottom line.
“That’s where our toolkit can help. We guide businesses through the basics of ethics, and provide some simple tried and tested tools. Ethics is about more than saving your brand from controversy or guessing the next niche market trend – it’s about how to make good decisions that stand up to scrutiny.”
The Food Ethics Council works with business, government and the third sector to help find a way through controversial issues in food and farming. They undertake research and analysis, hold roundtables, seminars and conferences, publish a quarterly magazine and produce tools for decision makers.
Free for food businesses, the toolkit can be ordered from the Food Ethics Council or downloaded from their website
www.foodethicscouncil.org
For more information about the ethical toolkit please contact Liz Barling on 01273 766 654 or liz@foodethicscouncil.org