Aggressive Quote by Norman Borlaug

When in 1963 we started large-scale research and testing with semi-dwarf varieties of wheat obtained from Mexico through Norman Borlaug, the new plant types…

— M. S. Swaminathan

“Modern wheat, despite all the genetic alterations to modify hundreds, if not thousands, of its genetically determined characteristics, made its way to the worldwide…

— William Davis

A country that cannot feed itself cannot have self-pride, and in the mid-'60s 20 percent of all the wheat produced in America came into…

— Jairam Ramesh

If Mexican farm labor is so much cheaper, maybe we should be growing our fruits and vegetables in Mexico. There's absolutely no reason to…

— Ann Coulter

“In fact, wheat has been modified by humans to such a degree that modern strains are unable to survive in the wild without human…

— William Davis

“How this peculiar grass, native to Central America and unknown to the Old World before 1492, came to colonize so much of our land…

— Michael Pollan

“This is the magical realism of NAFTA - Mexico, the birthplace of corn, is now importing surplus corn from el Norte - millions of…

— John Vaillant

When I left the army and took up farming, the wheat crop would be over your head and yet we wouldn't have enough.

— Amarinder Singh

“Americans have become helpless wheataholics, with per capita annual consumption of wheat products (white and wheat bread, durum pasta) having increased by twenty-six pounds…

— William Davis

“The exchange of foodstuffs began as a deliberate policy of the Spanish crown. Old World crops and livestock were introduced to Mexico and Peru…

— Raymond Sokolov

Cereal production in the rain-fed areas still remains relatively unaffected by the impact of the green revolution, but significant change and progress are now…

— Norman Borlaug

The ease with which barley may be substituted directly for wheat in human food and its usefulness to replace wheat milling by-products as feed…

— David F. Houston