Jayson Lusk

Jayson Lusk (born 1974) is Vice President and Dean of the Division of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources at Oklahoma State University. Prior to that position, he served as Distinguished Professor and Department Head in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University.^[2] He authors books and articles related to contemporary food policy issues.^[3]

Lusk discussed his book The Food Police on agricultural-based television show Horizons.^[1]

Education and career

Lusk received his B.S. in Food Technology in 1997, from Texas Tech University, and his Ph.D. from Kansas State University in Agricultural Economics. Lusk began his career as assistant professor at Mississippi State University and then associate professor at Purdue University from 2000 to 2005. From 2005 to 2013 Lusk was Professor and Willard Sparks Endowed Chair at Oklahoma State University, Department of Agricultural Economics. During that time he also was a Visiting Researcher at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research. From 2017 until 2023, Lusk served as Distinguished Professor and Head of Purdue University, Department of Agricultural Economics.^[4]

Over his career, Lusk has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles in academic journals, including the Economic Journal, the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, and Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.^[5] Lusk's first popular press book The Food Police: A Well-fed Manifesto about the Politics of Your Plate criticized modern food policies as being intrusive.^[6] He frequently appears on Fox News to discuss research related to food.^[7] His second book Unnaturally Delicious: How Science and Technology are Serving Up Super Foods to Save the World describes how Lusk believes that changes in food technology can save the planet.^[8]

Awards

He is a Fellow and Past President of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association.^[9] In 2018, he was awarded the Borlaug Communication Award from the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology.^[10]

Books

• Unnaturally Delicious: How Science and Technology are Serving Up Super Foods to Save the World. 2016. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-1250074300.
• The Food Police: A Well-Fed Manifesto About the Politics of Your Plate. 2013. Crown Forum. ISBN 978-0307987037.
• Compassion, by the Pound: The Economics of Farm Animal Welfare, with F. Bailey Norwood. 2011. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199551163.
• Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Food Consumption an Policy, edited with Jutta Roosen and Jason Shogren. 2011. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199569441.
• Experimental Auctions: Methods and Applications in Economic and Marketing Research (Quantitative Methods for Applied Economics and Business Research), with Jason Shogren. 2008. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521671248.
• Agricultural Marketing and Price Analysis, with F. Bailey Norwood. 2007. Prentice Hall. ISBN 978-0132211215.

References

1. Jayson Lusk - The Food Police. Oklahoma Horizon TV
2. "Agricultural Economics". Purdue University - College of Agriculture. Retrieved 2023-02-03.
3. Lusk, Jayson; Miller, Henry I. (2014-02-03). "Opinion | We Need G.M.O. Wheat". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-02-03.
4. Lusk, Jayson L. "CV" (PDF). Jayson Lusk Agricultural Economist. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
5. Jayson Lusk CV
6. Lusk, Jayson (2013-05-06). "Viewpoint: The New Food Police Are Out of Touch". Time. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved 2023-02-03.
7. "Is meat really ruining the environment? | Fox News Video". Fox News. 2017-02-04. Retrieved 2023-02-03.
8. Berenstein, Nadia (29 March 2016). "Will the Food of the Future be 'Unnaturally Delicious'?". Popular Science. Retrieved 31 May 2018.
9. "Jayson L. Lusk | Agricultural & Applied Economics Association". www.aaea.org. Retrieved 2023-02-03.
10. "2017 Borlaug CAST Communication Award to Jayson Lusk".

External links

• "Jayson Lusk". JSTOR.
• Jayson Lusk publications indexed by Google Scholar