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| Dr. Lawrence Busch is University Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for Food and Agricultural Standards at Michigan State University. He is coauthor or coeditor of a number of books including Plants, Power, and Profit: Social, Economic, and Ethical Consequences of the New Biotechnologies (Blackwell, 1991); From Columbus to Conagra: The Globalization of Agriculture (Kansas, 1994); and Making Nature, Shaping Culture: Plant Biodiversity in Global Context (Nebraska, 1995) and most recently, The Eclipse of Morality: Science, State, and Market (Aldine deGruyter, 2000) as well as more than 100 other publications. He is past president of the Rural Sociological Society, past president of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He recently was named Chevalier de l’Ordre du Mérite Agricole by the French government. Dr. Busch has worked in France, Norway, Kenya, Brazil, India, and a number of other nations on issues related to food and agriculture. He has been long been a consultant to the International Service for National Agricultural Research and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. He has written and spoken on a variety of social, political, and economic issues associated with food standards, both here and abroad. Dr. Busch's interests include food and agricultural standards food safety policy, biotechnology policy, agricultural science and technology policy, higher education in agriculture, and public participation in the policy process.
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University Distinguished Professor
Department of Sociology
Michigan State University
422 Berkey Hall
East Lansing, MI 48824
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John V. Stone is a Faculty Research Associate at the Institute for Food and Agricultural Standards (IFAS) at Michigan State University. He holds a Ph.D. and an MA in Applied Anthropology, both from the University of South Florida, and a BA in Anthropology from Michigan State. John assists with numerous activities at IFAS, including grant writing, research, and management, and graduate course development and teaching. His primary research interests are in the participatory dimensions of environmental management and agrifood standards development and implementation, and particularly ethnographic methodological applications to promote more equitable social access in those processes. John has managed numerous social research projects, authored more than 20 scientific publications and technical reports, and made more than 35 presentations to professional societies and associations. He co-founded the Risk Assessment and Policy Association and holds membership in the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA), the American Anthropoligical Association, and the International Associations for Public Participation and Impact Assessment, respectively. John received the EPA/SfAA Environmental Anthropology Fellowship in 1999, and served as the inaugural Fellow to the Great Lakes Commission Fellowship Program. |
Applied Anthropologist
IFAS
Michigan State University
425-A Berkey Hall
East Lansing, MI 48824
Ph: 517-355-2384
fax: 517-432-4023
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Paul B. 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, and 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. Thompson published the first booklength philosophical treatment of agricultural biotechnology in 1997, and has traveled the world speaking on the subject, delivering invited addresses in Egypt, Thailand, Taiwan, Mexico, Israel and Jamaica, as well as a number of European countries. In addition to philosophical outlets, his work on biotechnology has appeared in technical journals including Plant Physiology, The Journal of Animal Science, Bioscience, and Cahiers d’Economie et Sociologie Rurales. He serves on the United States National Research Council’s Agricultural Biotechnology Advisory Council and on the Science and Industry Advisory Committee for Genome Canada. Thompson’s new work focuses on nanotechnology in the agrifood system. |
W. K. Kellogg Chair in Agricultural, Food and Community Ethics
Michigan State University
526 S. Kedzie Hall
East Lansing, MI 48824
517-353-5079
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Department of Sociology
429B Berkey Hall
East Lansing, MI 48824
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Professor
Department of Community, Agriculture, Recreation and Resource Studies
Michigan State University
326 Natural Resources
East Lansing, MI 48824
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