Paul B. Thompson, the W.K. Kellogg Chair in Agricultural, Food and Community Ethics At Michigan State University, calls on liberals and progressives to take a more objective look at the benefits of agricultural biotechnology, particularly in their ability to benefit farmers in developing countries.

Mr. Thompson said that understanding how agricultural biotechnology can benefit the poor is going to require a sophisticated and complex discourse and its success depends on people of good will taking the time to understand and consider the arguments in some detail.

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