Hospital foundation selling chocolate bars: is this ethical?
While passing thru a cash counter in a store today, I saw a box of chocolate bars, on top of it was written: “3$ for the Louis H. Lafontaine hospital foundation”. I’m alright with a hospital foundation seeking fund by itself rather than asking for government help all the time, but what I’m not alright with is the mean they’re using.
It’s not rocket science to figure that those cheap chocolate sold for 3$ are mainly made of sugar, colouring, and very little chocolate actually. I estimate it should cost them less than 0.50$ to make those chocolate bars, in order to make it worth the selling effort.
So here’s a hospital selling extremely unhealthy food to people in order to fund the hospital? I suspect that the money made from those chocolate bars barely pay for the operational cost of buying and distributing the goods. The real benefit comes from the people who have bought and consumed those chocolate bars and therefore becoming sick, thus ultimately become a patient of the very hospital that they were trying to help.
Remember the movie Kangaroo Jack? The guy brought the money from America to Australia to pay for the killer to kill himself!
We’ve resolved the problem of the pharmacy selling cigarette, now we have to tackle this one…