Paul B. Thompson is W.K. Kellogg Chair in Agricultural, Food and Community Ethics, Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University, with partial appointments in the Agricultural Economics and Resource Development Departments. He previously held positions as Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Director, Center for Food Animal Productivity and Wellbeing at Purdue University and prior to that positions as Professor of Philosophy and Agricultural Economics and Director, Center for Science and Technology Policy and Ethics, at Texas A&M University.Editorial positions at Springer are a jointly held position of editor-in-chief of the bookseries The International Library of Environmental,… Agricultural and Food Ethics, and membership of the editorial boards of the journalsnbsp; Agriculture and Human Values, and Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics. nbsp;