@article{Zimdahl:339172,
      recid = {339172},
      author = {Zimdahl, Robert L. },
      title = {Commentary: Institutionalizing Agricultural Ethics},
      journal = {Asian Journal of Agriculture and Development},
      address = {2023-12-29},
      number = {1362-2024-014},
      month = {Dec},
      year = {2023},
      abstract = {When something is institutionalized, it is established as  a convention or norm of an organization or culture. Most  professional disciplines have institutionalized and  published their professional ethical expectations.  Universities routinely include ethical study in the  curriculum for medicine, law, business, and the  environment. The agricultural science curriculum lacks  consideration and study of the effects of agriculture’s  ethical dilemmas on society. Moreover, agriculture, the  essential human activity and the most widespread human  interaction with the environment, needs a defined moral  foundation. Ethics has not been institutionalized in US  land-grant universities with agricultural colleges, 2  colleges of agriculture in other countries, agricultural  professional organizations, or the agribusiness industry.  That is not to say there are no professional ethical  standards. Examining agriculture’s ethical base and the  reasons for it is an exercise in reason to find where the  weight of reason rests (Rachels and Rachels 2007). Many  assume agriculture has had an adequate ethical foundation.  The assumption is not questioned. There has been too little  investigation and too little critical thinking about the  lack of and need for an explicit ethical foundation.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/339172},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.339172},
}