A truly interesting part of this course was the study of food politics. Nestle (2002) details a subtly corrupt system that works around monetary incentives in indirect and direct ways. Lobbying and campaign contributions from corporations have a tremendous influence over legislation. Nestle then goes on to show extremely suspicious relationships between corporation activity (such as lobbying and campaign donations) and changes in legislation. The interests of corporations end up having a larger influence than public health. One particular practice that shocked me was the rotation in the careers of some politicians between working for the government and working for corporations (many times as lobbyists) (Nestle, 2002). This begs questioning of the influence that corporations end up having on politicians that have worked for them before as well as the incentives of representing corporate interests as politicians so as to have a stronger foothold on a corporate job in the future.