McDonald’s Partnering with Diverse Organizations: Is it Ethical?

Discussion Board  Student Name Instructor Name Institutional Affiliation Course Number and Name Due Date Discussion Board Question 1             The acts of fast-food companies like McDonald’s partnering with diverse organizations from a social perspective to improve their public image receive heated criticism from health advocators. Emerging argument indicates that their current efforts to champion healthier behaviors and active lifestyles while still flooding the markets with unhealthy food items create an ambivalence scenario. They appear to play mind games to ensure that they maintain a positive image while aggressively pushing their products for profit. According to Tempels et al. (2017), these companies create an impression that they care about the people’s health but continue to develop hyper-palatable food items whose impact on the consumers resembles drug addiction. As a result, pretending to advance a positive agenda by partnering with institutions to support social elements in communities emerges contradictors. The firms actively participate in inducing health threats in p...