Q Sally Smart works for Good Foods Inc. Good Foods produced a variety of canned foods including a meat and vegetarian chili that is popular among customers. Good Foods distributes their products thoughout the Midwest to a variety of large grocery stores that stock/sell their products. Good Foods Inc. is located in the the small town of Denial. Denial's population is approximately 8,000 residents. Good Foods employee about 450 people, mostly from the community. Given this, Denial depends on Good Foods Inc. for their economy due to the number of people employed and the tax and other revenues the corporation generates. Ten years ago, Good Foods went through a prolonged shut down due to a listeria contamination. The shut down lasted a month. The Corporation last 6 weeks and lead to several layoffs. Smart works in the front office. One day, the plant manager, Gary Clean, speaks to Good Foods, Inc CEO Samule Doright about a critical situation. Clean tells Doright that both Chilis are showing slight levels of the ecoli bacteria. He tells him that the levels were confirmed in two tests, but the tests may be inaccurate. Clean says further, more extensive testing is required. Smart overhears this conversation and walks down the hall to tell her friend, Beatrice Confidant. As Smart leaves her desk, she does not hear Clean tell Mr. Doright that in each test, the ecoli bacteria levels are far below the FDA standards for an immediate shut down of the plant and within the FDA standards for tolerable levels for human consumption. Sally Smart and Confidant talk. Both were around when the plant was shut down ten years ago. There are also aware of what happened to the little town of Denial when a GM Plant closed its doors 8 years ago. Smart talks about the following courses of action: (1) contacting the FDA to report the contamination and (2) contacting the local newspaper about the contamination. Lets explore the issue of being a whistleblower and its ramification. Lets also talk about the ethical dilemmas created here for Sally Smart as an employee. Question 1: Class - What is a whistleblower? How are they defined?