Paul Thompson holds the W. K. Kellogg Chair in Agricultural, Food and Community Ethics at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. He formerly held positions in philosophy at Texas A&M University and Purdue University. His research has centered on ethical and philosophical questions associated with agriculture and food, especially concerning the guidance and development of agricultural technoscience. This research focus has led him to undertake a series of projects on the application of recombinant DNA techniques to agricultural crops and food animals.
Paul Thompson reeived his undergraduate degree from Emory University and his Master's degree and Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
So what I want to suggest is that there are kind of basic human incentives to be ethical and they are reinforced up to a point in industry by the need for reputation and the need for product acceptance but it's no ... it's no secret to anybody that there is a certain point in the cycle of product de...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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