The original 1997 edition contained the following statement of acknowledgement:
I would like to thank the US National Science Foundation project SBR-9602968 for support of the research for this book. I would also like  to thank the Institute for Biosciences and Technology and the College of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University for extensive long term support of my research on food biotechnology. I would like to mention Charles Arntzen, Fuller Bazer and Benjamin Crouch at Texas A&M as individuals whose efforts on my behalf were of singular importance. On a personal level I would like to thank Rose Gilliver, Colette Holden and Marilyn Grant at Chapman & Hall and especially Daralyn Wallace and Johanna White at Texas A&M for help preparing, editing and indexing
the manuscript. The list of people to whom I owe gratitude for help in thinking through the issues in this book is far too long to recount. 
Most of them would have profound disagreement with something I have written herein, and might well prefer to remain anonymous, anyway. As the second edition goes to press, the list of unnamed people to whom I owe a debt of appreciation has grown longer still. But a few additional ones do deserve mention. I would like to thank the US National Science Foundation again for support I
received through award number SES-0403847, a project to explore links between the agrifood biotechnology debate and the emerging science of nanotechnology. I would also like to acknowledge Michigan State University and the WK Kellogg Foundation for the support extended through the WK Kellogg Chair in Agricultural, Food and Community Ethics. In addition, I would like to thank the Applied Philosophy group at Wageningen University in the Netherlands for the hospitality they extended to
me during my sabbatical visit during 2004, when these revisions were originally begun. Bill Hannah has earned my gratitude for his assistance in compiling the index. Thanks also to Fritz Schmuhl at Springer for support and encouragement. Finally I would like to thank Julie Eckinger, without whom the final completion of the manuscript would have been impossible