1. Within the context of how Ritzer uses the term, what is predictability? Can it be characterized as merely "good" or "bad"? Or is it more complicated? Explain your answer.
2. What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of control in the food industry? How do you feel about eating the products of such a controlled system? Has reading this chapter made you rethink your eating habits at all? Include in your comments, your thoughts on Christopher Leonard's article.
3. How do you feel about the increasing control exerted over the processes of being born and of dying? Would you want your children (should you choose to have any) to be born in a controlled manner? Would you want to die in a controlled manner?