Paul B. Thompson is the W.K. Kellogg Professor of Agricultural, Food and Community Ethics at Michigan State University, where he is Professor in the Departments of Philosophy, Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics and Community Sustainability. Thompson received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Stony Brook University in 1980, and served on the faculty at Texas A&M University and Purdue University before coming to Michigan State in 2003. He is an author on 20 books and over 300 journal articles and book chapters. From Field to Fork: Food Ethics for Everyone was selected as 2015 book of the year by the North American Society for Social philosophy. Sacred Cows and Hot Potatoes (1992) won the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association award for excellence in communication. Thompson has received lifetime achievement awards from the Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society and the European Society for Agriculture and Food Ethics.