Seminar V

 

Seminar Paper Information - Food Politics – section five

 

For each seminar, you are required to submit a typed [must be 11 or 12 font] paper containing the following information:

 

Include a short assessment of the author’s ability to stick to her goal of being accurate, balanced and fair. Was she able to help you understand how food companies manipulate government and essentially what information is disclosed to the public? For this section, did she fuel your sense of ethics? Are you incensed? Sad? Curious? Why?

 

Section Five:  Inventing Techno Foods: After reading this section, please identify two ‘talking points’ based on questions or topics from the reading that have intrigued you; and you would like to have a discussion about them. Write a few lines outlining your thoughts on the subject, and use quotes with page numbers, to guide the discussion. Please limit each ‘talking point’ to two paragraphs.

 

Please include a comment/talking point specifically from the Conclusion.  You should discuss this point including personal reflections from the book, class discussions and / or information from the textbook.  

 

OVERALL REVIEW OF BOOK

This should be written in a format as if it will be published in the local newspaper or a magazine.  The review should include highlights, provocative topics and a brief synopsis of the author.   Be sure to conclude with a brief paragraph as to why the read should or should not read this book with substantiate reasoning.