"Some of the environmental lobbyists of the Western……" — Norman Borlaug
"Some of the environmental lobbyists of the Western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of them are elitists. They've never experienced the physical sensation of hunger. They do their lobbying from comfortable office suites in Washington or Brussels. If they lived just one month amid the misery of the developing world, as I have for fifty years, they'd be crying out for tractors and fertilizer and irrigation canals and be outraged that fashionable elitists back home were trying to deny them these things."
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Norman Borlaug
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30 Quotes by Norman Borlaug
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Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but…
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Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are…
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Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.
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There are no miracles in agricultural production.
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Everything else can wait, agriculture can’t.
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