Bell Quiz

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Bell Quiz

• What role does ethics play in an FFA chapter?

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Ethical Issues in SAE and FFA Management

• AGSC 405Facilitating Complete Secondary
  Agricultural Science Programs

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Today YWBAT

• Define ethics and character
• Evaluate situations that require ethical
  decisions
• Determine unethical behavior at livestock shows

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Can we have Blue Ribbon Youth and Blue Ribbon
Animals?

• YES With a lot of hard work and commitment to
  do the RIGHT thing!!!

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We must always keep our focus on the right end
of the halter.
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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

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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

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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

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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.

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News Headlines

• 4-H Club Adviser Indicted in Steer Tampering
  Case Circleville, Ohio (1995)
• Ohio Department of Agriculture Investigators said
  urine tests on the fairs grand champion and
  reserve grand champion steers revealed they had
  been treated with chlorpromazine, an oral
  tranquilizer.

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News Headlines

• Livestock Shows Plagued by Cheating -- The
  Wall Street Journal, Texas Journal (1996)
• Until the recent commotion, Matthew Storks
  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.

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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 1980s, 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.

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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.

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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.

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Learning by Example

• By Larry Mrozinski

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• 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.

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Ethics

• Standards of Duty and Virtue That Indicate How We
  Should Behave

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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

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Character
Is ethics in action -- Michael Josephson
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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

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Reputation
Is what people think you are character is what
you are -- Michael Josephson
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Character
Is revealed by how you behave when you think no
one is looking. -- Michael Josephson
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Making the Right Choice

• Scenario

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What is Considered Unethical Behavior at
Livestock Shows?

• Use of illegal drugs
• Violation of ownership requirements
• Phenotypically alter the appearance of animal
• Misrepresenting the age of an animal
• Feeding and care of livestock projects
• Use of tranquilizers, sedatives or depressants

• Surgery, injection or insertion of foreign
  materials
• Use of inhumane fitting, showing and/or handling
  practices
• Interference with the judge and/or show officials
• Violation of any rule governing the livestock
  show

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Resources Available to You

• Texas Livestock Show Code of Ethics
• Videos by Jeff Goodwin
• Wheres 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