Seminar Paper Information  - Food Politics – section two

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?

SectionTwo: Working the System. 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.

Discuss in a separate section your views on how the head of the USDA and FDA are selected. Should they be elected positions? Is the current selection process adequate? Should these positions be hired internally i.e. – promotions within each department, or have application processes as any other position in the private sector would have??