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More people than ever before are adopting an ethical approach to the food they eat. Countless celebrities have come out as vegan, and every week a new vegan vlogger lights up social media. At the same time, vegan activists continue to raise awareness of ongoing cruelty within the food industry and entrepreneurs compete to develop new vegan food products. This book helps new vegans negotiate the pitfalls of choosing ethical food. It includes advice on reading labels and eating out with non-vegan friends, help sorting the myths from the facts, and 10 great questions to ask a nutritionist.

Being vegan isn't just about what you eat, it's also about what you wear, where you live, and how you entertain yourself. This informative and accessible book offers readers insight into the history of animal entertainment from 2000 B.C.E. through to the 21st century. It outlines different philosophies on how humans should interact with animals and gives suggestions of how to avoid unethical animal entertainment and help prevent its continued practice. Also included are sections on Myths and Facts about ethical entertainment and further questions for readers to Ask a Specialist, making this volume a great jumping-off point for discussing cruelty-free living.

Vegans strive to lead a cruelty-free life, avoiding eating or using products that cause harm to animals. When it comes to clothes and fashion, that goal may appear even more difficult to achieve. This accessible guide explains how animal cruelty is embedded in fabric production, manufacturing, and marketing. Readers will discover how to make a personal checklist of their cruelty-free values and buy budget-friendly clothes that they can feel good about. Features include an inspirational section providing readers with numerous ideas for making their own cruelty-free garments and accessories, a sidebar on debunking topical Myths and Facts, and 10 Questions to Ask a Specialist.

AbstractThe Nuremberg code, a response to the 1946 Nuremberg Medical Trials, was the first attempt to formally state ethical requirements for medical research. The Code was generally ignored as a response to the peculiarly barbaric Nazi atrocities and an unnecessary fetter on normal research. A series of research scandals, however, led to more successful attempts at regulating medical research and to the introduction of various ethical committees during the 1970s. Since then, ethical committees have expanded their remit to regulate social as well as medical research and operate according to precautionary standards that far exceed what is necessary to protect public safety. Ethical committees block investigations of medical practice even when the intent is to benefit patients directly and they prevent social research entailing even far‐fetched possibilities of 'stress'. Although purportedly designed to protect patients and civil liberties, modern ethical regulation damages the doctor–patient relationship, undermines professional responsibility, and encourages negative scientific practice.

High profile scandals and ethical misconduct in companies around the world have brought about a renewed interest in business ethics, specifically the need for a better understanding of the roles and responsibilities of leadership in promoting ethical behaviour. Against this background, a quantitative analysis was conducted among companies operating in South Africa's Eastern Cape Province's automotive industry. The aim of the study was to determine the ethics-related roles played by the leadership at these organisations and the extent to which they contributed to establishing and maintaining an ethical organisational environment. A structured online questionnaire was used to collect the data. The results revealed that the organisations in the sample are highly ethical due to ethical and committed leadership and moreover the presence of ethics related interventions, including a code of ethics, adherence to internal and external governance requirements, compliance with legislation and encouragement and disclosure of unethical behaviour. DOI:10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n20p897

This research aims to test and provide empirical evidence of an ethical orientation of idealism, relativism, and ethical culture of the organization to auditor ethical behavior with experience as a moderation variable. This study used the census methods to all auditors in Badan Pemeriksa Keuangan Republik Indonesia the Provincial Representative of East Kalimantan. Data obtained by 33 respondents and processed with SmartPLS. The result shows that idealism and the ethical culture of the organization have a positive effect on the auditor's ethical behavior, whereas relativism has no negative effect on the auditor's ethical behavior. The moderation test result shows that the experience cannot moderate the ethical orientation of idealism and relativism on auditors' ethical behavior, however, experience has proven to moderate the ethical culture of the organization on auditors' ethical behavior.

Why Ethical Hacking? -- Essential Terms and Concepts -- Methodology and Quantitative Studies of Ethical Hacking: Evidence-Based Decision and Policy-Making -- Legal Cases Around the World (with Jelena Ardalic) -- Select Ethical-Hacking Incidences: Anonymous -- Select Ethical-Hacking Incidences: Chaos Computer Club, CyberBerkut, Lulzsec, Iranian Cyber Army, and Others -- Online Civil Disobedience -- Hacktivism -- Penetration/Intrusion Testing and Vulnerability Disclosure -- Counterattack/Hackback -- Security Activism -- Ethical-Hacking Challenges in Legal Frameworks, Investigation, Prosecution, and Sentencing -- Ethical Hacking, Whistle-Blowing, and Human Rights and Freedoms -- Toward an Ethical-Hacking Framework

Given the increasing interest in ethical brands, the paper identifies and analyses the key issues within the fashion industry regarding ethics in modern society and economy. What exactly makes researches state that fashion is deadly, unsustainable and unethical? The article considers the issues on the basis of the human and animal rights, environmental impacts, governments' lack of regulation, fashion industry and its supply chain characteristics, and consumers' behavior. Globalization, outsourcing, geographically longer and extended supply chains and the lack of visibility and control, are some of the premises identified in causing ethical issues in fashion industry. Finally, it concludes with what are the features of ethical fashion in general. It uses secondary sources obtained mainly through the media and the literature to review the current debates within the industry.

Purpose of this report is the identification and analysis of the regulatory and ethical framework relevant to the SPHINX project. Its findings need therefore to be taken into account by all project partners while executing their tasks. SPHINX aims to introduce a universal cyber security toolkit that will enhance the cyber protection of Health IT Ecosystems and ensure patients' data privacy and integrity. The SPHINX toolkit will be adapted or embedded on existing medical, clinical or health available infrastructures. In the context of the project, SPHINX's cyber-security ecosystem shall be validated and evaluated against performance, effectiveness and usability indicators at three different countries (Romania, Portugal and Greece). Hospitals, healthcare providers and IT solution providers participating in the project's pilots will deploy and evaluate the solution at business-as-usual and emergency situations across various use case scenarios. This report takes into account the SPHINX project characteristics and particularises them onto legal and ethical findings. Its first three parts elaborate upon the applicable legal and ethical framework for SPHINX project purposes. In this context, the ethical principles applicable are discussed in Chapter 1, while EU personal data protection law and EU cybersecurity law are analysed in Chapters 2 and 3 respectively. The analysis takes into account primary and secondary legislation, as well as, guidance issued by the European Commission and other EU bodies and agencies. Its aim is to formulate a comprehensive text of reference for all ethical and legal issues that are of relevance to the project. Findings of the first three Chapters of this report are made concrete onto actual SPHINX circumstances in Chapter 4. While structurally the already applied pattern is followed in this Chapter as well (subchapters 4.3, 4.4 and 4.5 focusing on ethical, personal data protection, and cybersecurity issues respectively), attention has been given to drafting concrete and specific guidance ...

Australians live in a consumer society. It can be easy to ignore the fact that every purchase we make has an impact - financially, socially and environmentally. Being an ethical shopper means making conscious choices about what we consume, and how if affects our world. Do we choose low-cost, high-convenience and unnecessary consumption over environmental sustainability, corporate responsibility and actual need? Do the products we purchase harm other humans, animals or the environment? Are the people who produce them working in decent conditions? How can consumers influence producers and retail

Rationale for ethical city -- The right to the city -- Ethics and the city -- Who shapes the ethical city? -- Assessment of the ethical city -- Competitive, liveable and fragile cities -- Relentless disruption -- Building ethical cities -- Ethical urban futures.