Panel Discussion Sample Introduction Good evening. The subject of todays discussion will be rising food prices.

The members of the panel are from left to right! "ary Smith# Dan Stevens# Steve $illiams# %inda Patterson# and "ichelle Gordon. In recent years we have all felt the pinch of inflation. $ith each paychec& it ta&es more dollars to buy fewer goods. $e have seen grocery bills more than double in the past five years. It is this area of grocery prices that we are hardest hit by inflation. It is our deep concern for this problem that has brought us here today to find a solution to the 'uestion( $hat can be done to halt rising food prices)