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Touchstone 1.2
Touchstone 1.2
Jessica Banahene
Sophia-SNHU
English Comp II
December 22, 2021
Research question: are genetically modified foods safe for human consumption?
Working thesis: for ethical and social constructed reasons, genetically modified foods are not accepted in some cultures.
Detailed Outline
Introduction:
For ethical and social constructed reasons genetically, modified foods are not accepted in some cultures. Genetically modified foods have grown popular in various parts of the world. It is reported that genetically modified crops occupied a total of 12% of the cropland around the world in 2015 (Menozzi et al., 2017). Genetically maize plants sat on around 53.7 million hectares of land in the same year (Menozzi et al., 2017). These figures show the increased acceptance of genetically modified products and the role they play in ensuring food security.
Ethical issues
Potential harm to human health.
Potential harm to the environment.
The technology is unnatural.
Food security
GMOs provide food security
It will help solve hunger problems.
Improved value for crops and animals.
Disease-drought resistant crops and animals.
Less use of pesticides
The plants require less resources.
Reduced cost of the farm products and increased shelf life.
Counterargument
Antibiotic resistance
Immunosuppression
Allergic reactions
Concerns of cancer
Conclusion
Genetically modified foods have grown in popularity in the recent past.
GMOs ensure food security and can help alleviate hunger
However, there are concerns that GMO’s cause food allergy and antibiotic resistance.
Consider the process of researching as a whole. What was the most challenging aspect of the process for you? (2-3 sentences)
The most challenging aspect of the process was to find reliable research papers that address the issue of genetically modified foods. Most of the sources located during the search did not follow the standard process of research. Hence the information found in these sources could not be trusted and thus were disregarded.
Effectiveness of the working thesis.
The thesis statement highlighted in this paper leans on the position that genetically modified foods are safe for human consumption and ensure food security. This thesis statement takes a position demystifying the concerns that genetically modified foods present a health risk. The argument here looks at both the pro and opposing views regarding this topic
Questions
As I go deeper into the research process would like to have the following questions addressed:
What are the myths about genetically modified foods?
What electronic databases contain sources that focus on this topic?
References
Menozzi, D., Kostov, K., Sogari, G., Arpaia, S., Moyankova, D., & Mora, C. (2017). A stakeholder engagement approach for identifying future research directions in the evaluation of current and emerging applications of GMOs. Bio-based and Applied Economics, 6(1), 57-79.
Total compensation plan
Total compensation plan
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Virtual organizations provide an opportunity for practical experience of theoretical knowledge in real world business scenarios. They allow students to identify and solve complex business issues based on critically analyzed solutions. Riordan manufactures, which is one of the virtual organizations is a vibrant plant that manufactures plastic substrates from polymers. It provides a webpage platform for active engagements of students on real business issues ranging from problem solving, improvement of existing business sectors to introductions of new systems for efficacy and growth.
The business world is so competitive and creative ways on how to outsmart competitor are necessary. Workers are regarded to be the greatest asset and the firms’ turnover is always at their mercies. Success of the firm and high profit margins depends on workers’ productivity. This can be fully exploited through total workers compensations and incentives by the board. Compensation plans will range from direct financial incentives such as wage and salary increments, bonuses and commissions to indirect financial plans such as free daycare programs for parents, prizes and other insurance perks. Non- financial plans will include safe environments and fair treatment for Riordan manufactures.
Riordan manufacture objective is to become one of the largest plastic manufacturing plants with mission statements to help see its success. Critical areas that help define the mission statements at Riordan manufacturers are, on customer relationship seen as a solution for the customer, focus on abilities and attitudes that exceed industrial standards, innovative and team oriented working environment and to ensure long term viability of the firm. For realization of all this mission statements, particularly on the long term viability, the management should strive to ensure a long term relationship with employees. This can be done with introduction on long term incentive plans for employees to ensure that they stay committed to the firm. One of the compensation plans to ensure long term viability of the company is the introduction of strong retirement package plan. The package plan should be enticing enough as compared to other competitors in the industry to retain their loyalty and commitment.
Innovation and team work is necessary for success. Integrating of indirect financial compensation plans such as employees’ workshop and lectures on career growth at the firm’s expense motivates employees and concurrently modifies their skills. Currently, most firms sponsor their members to career development workshops; analyze their performance before promoting them. The firm should also realize that the success of the sales person is achieved from combined efforts of the store keeper and other handy staffs. Riordan should focus on a team retreat of the entire staff, from the manager to the janitor since their collective efforts result to success. Arranged holyday vacations to recognize the entire teams’ performance will further encourage team work and motive future performances.
Apart from employees, loyal customers of Riordan manufactures, ranging from beverage firms to assembly industries ensure their existence. Compensating this consumer firms in the form on offers and prizes will strengthen relationships and loyalty. Reduced prizes to loyal customers as a form of recognizing their contribution to Riordan success will enable you retain them, even at difficult economic times, such as recession period.
The company should compensate employees as well as customers will stocks allotment. Stock issue is a form of ownership. Compensating workers with company shares is a way to ensure the success of your company as well as fostering relationships with the firm. Employees will strive for excellence in their performance triggered by partial ownership.
The market environment is very volatile and hardly predictable. Individual efforts and ideas will at time help firms navigate through economic turbulences. Apart from the team compensations, the board should analyze such efforts and recognize them by giving addition commissions and bonuses to such outstanding members of the team. Though the sales person needs the inventory person to successfully play his/her role, at times, his/her extra mile on sales results to extra revenues to the firm, under this situation, his efforts need to be appreciated to further motivate him. In such a case, equity is enforced with regard to extra input.
A safe working environment is necessary to guarantee the safety of workers. Availability of safety gadgets for employees in their interaction with heavy plastic synthesizing machines reduces risks and worries. Introduction of safety insurance policies in Riordan create worry free environment and direct this constrained efforts embedded in worries to production.
Performance appraisal and compensation plans are necessary to motivate worker’s productivity, but at the same time, keen interest to economic factors, profit margins and compensation packages from competitors should be considered before such plans. Firms need retained profits too, to help them survive and grow. Very high compensation costs will eat on Riordan profits. With the current $2million profit margin, Riordan should ensure that workers are duly compensated but not to the extreme. This is because, not only should they compensate employees, customers and owners but also the firm itself. New machineries and integrating of technology is necessary, a new company outlook should also be part and parcel of the compensation plan.
The main goal of compensation is to ensure that workers fully concentrate on their work and not on other issues, improve performances and take every opportunity to ensure the success of Riordan firm. The concept is simple, great results, high pay. Currently, firms are defining other modes of compensation, with daycare programs for children being the most recent. The future is unpredictable and compensation seems to be taking a different direction from financial norms to services for employees and many are yet to embrace this change.
References
Allen, E. T., Melone, J. J., Rosenbloom, J. S., & Melone, J. J. (1976). Pension planning: pensions, profit sharing, and other deferred compensation plans (3d Ed.). Homewood, Ill.: R.D. Irwin.
Patten, T. H. (1977). Pay: employee compensation and incentive plans. New York: Free Press.
Tort Laws
Tort Laws:
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The defendants were legally entitled to self-defense and defense of property. This is after the plaintiff broke into their shop and threatened them using a gun which was apparently not a real gun. The defendants were under attack and were facing harm which legally warrants self defense. Further the plaintiff poised immediate harm to the defendants therefore according to the tort laws of self-defense; the defendants had the right to defend themselves (Best & Barnes, 2007). The tort laws on self-defense require that a person is only entitled to self defense when faced with a threat of death or serious body injuries. This was true initially as the defendants thought that the plaintiff had a gun which poses serious body harm to a person. By all accounts the defendants were legally justified to defend themselves against the plaintiff.
Even though the defendants were entitled to self-defense, they also breached the laws governing the act of self- defense. The tort laws governing self-defense requires the response of the victim to be reasonable and should be aimed at preventing the unlawful attack. Under these laws, the defendants should not torture, maim or inflict unreasonable body injuries to the attacker. The defendants’ action to beat the plaintiff after tying him up is unlawful because it is against the law for reasonable response in self-defense
. The defendants’ breach of the tort laws is further evident considering that they continued beating the plaintiff for an hour well after preventing his attack by tying him up. According to Harpwood (2008), this under tort laws is regarded as an intentional tort of battering. The tort laws require that the defendants should have called the police instead of beating the plaintiff after subduing him. The law states that any response of self-defense should be reasonable and not excessive. If the medical evidence is to be considered, then clearly the defendants’ actions were too excessive. The medical evidence of the plaintiff revealed very serious injuries with far reaching complications such as the left leg being permanently disabled. The plaintiff also had scars in his back and a bone fracture. This report, without any doubt, shows that the defendants’ actions were excessive and unreasonable which is against the tort laws governing a person’s right to self-defense which requires retreating from an attack threat.
The defendants violated the tort on defense of property by committing an intentional tort. The plaintiff broke into the defendants jewel shop which was legally owned by the defendants. The tort law on defense and the subsequent recovery of property allows the defendants to react against the plaintiff’s action to break into their shop. However, this tort law does not allow any force to be used on an innocent person or party (Best & Barnes, 2007). The plaintiff had a toy gun therefore could not pose serious threats to the defendants. The gun the plaintiff possessed could not in any way have caused body injuries to the defendants. In this regard, the defendants committed an intentional tort by battering the plaintiff who did not pose any serious threat to them.
The plaintiff also committed tort law of assaulting the defendants. Although the plaintiff used a toy gun, this created fear among the defendants which under tort laws is an assault. According to Okrent (2009), the tort laws do not require physical contact for it to qualify as a tort. Any act that can create fear by threatening someone is considered as an assault. The plaintiff threatened the defendants using a toy gun and as a result, violated the tort laws. As a result, both the defendants and the plaintiff committed tort laws.
Another tort law violated by the defendants is the economic loss due to the high medical expense caused by the battering the plaintiff was subjected to (Okrent, 2009). The medical evidence reveals that the plaintiff suffered very many body injuries. Some of these injuries will take a lot of time to heal further meaning that the plaintiff will spend a lot of time in the hospital. Consequently, the plaintiff would have a high medical bill to foot. This is as a result of spending a relatively long period in the hospital. The plaintiff will experience economic losses of paying the high medical bill. Furthermore, the plaintiff will not be working but instead spending time in the hospital recuperating. This further will negatively affect the plaintiff’s income further aggravating his economic loss. The defendants’ actions therefore clearly pose a serious harm to the plaintiff not only physically, but also financially. This is a clear breech of the tort laws which prohibits any harm to a person.
The defendants could have caused emotional and physical stress to the plaintiff, thus, violating the tort laws further (Harpwood, 2008). This is because the defendants’ battering of the plaintiff caused permanent disability of his left leg. Without any doubt physical disability could cause emotional stress to the plaintiff. This plaintiff would have to walk using crutches something that he never used to do before. This change of state could affect the plaintiff permanently in his life. His disability caused by the battering is a clear indication of the excessive force used by the defendants. Therefore, as a result of becoming disabled, the plaintiff experienced emotional and physical stress. This indicates that the defendants breeched the tort laws by causing emotional and physical stress to the plaintiff.
The defendants’ action of battering the plaintiff clearly made him to undergo pain and suffering. The many injuries the plaintiff endured could not have been accompanied by lots of pain and suffering. Fracturing any bone is so painfully and equally traumatizing. This in addition to the backaches the plaintiff had was surely painful. To worsen the situation, the fact that the plaintiff would be permanently disabled is not only painful, but also disheartening. It goes without saying that the plaintiff underwent a lot of pain and suffering. This shows a clear violation of the tort laws by the defendants since their action caused the plaintiff to experience a lot of pain and suffering. This is in sharp contrast with the tort laws which prohibits any harm or injury to a person either intentionally or unintentionally.
The defendants subjected the plaintiff to psychological harm by humiliating him. The defendants forced the plaintiff to kneel down and plead for forgiveness. This is after battering the plaintiff continuously for an hour. According to Best & Barnes (2007), this is against the breach of tort laws on self-defense and defense of property which permits committing injury to a person when preventing an attack. The plaintiff had well surrendered and should not have been subjected to such treatment.
Violating the tort laws was done by both the defendants and the plaintiff. The plaintiff violated these laws by illegally breaking into the defendants’ property. The plaintiff should not have broken into the shop as well as threatening the defendants using a toy gun. This caused the defendants harm, a clear contravention of the tort laws.
I agree with this verdict because the defendants’ actions were unreasonable and excessive as well. They were equally unnecessary. This is despite the fact that the plaintiff contravened the tort laws by breaking into the shop. The defendants were entitled to the right of defense of property; however, their actions equally violated the tort laws as they were unreasonable. Their actions seemed to have breached the tort laws of reasonable response to an attack while defending personal property.
References
Best, A. & Barnes, D (2007) Basic Tort Law: Cases, Statutes and Problems. New York, NY: Aspen Publishers Online
Harpwood, V. (2008) Modern Tort Law. New York, NY: Routledge
Okrent, C. (2009) Torts and Personal Injury Law. Belmont, CA: Cengage Learning