Best quotes by Norman Borlaug on Food

Checkout quotes by Norman Borlaug on Food

• ‟ Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.

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• ‟ Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.

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• ‟ Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.

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• ‟ If people want to believe that the organic food has better nutritive value, it's up to them to make that foolish decision. But there's absolutely no research that shows that organic foods provide better nutrition.

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• ‟ In my Nobel lecture, I suggested we had until the year 2000 to tame the population monster, and then food shortages would take us under. Now I believe we have a little longer.

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• ‟ The breakup of the former Soviet Union has caused its grain output to plummet, but if the new republics recover economically, they could produce vast amounts of food.

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• ‟ If some consumers believe that it's better from the point of view of their health to have organic food, God bless them. Let them buy it. Let them pay a bit more.

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• ‟ There can be no permanent progress in the battle against hunger until the agencies that fight for increased food production and those that fight for population control unite in a common effort.

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• ‟ Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.

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• ‟ Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.

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• ‟ Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.

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• ‟ I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers - mostly small and humble - who for many years have been fighting a quiet, oftentimes losing war on the food production front.

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• ‟ Unless there is one master gene for yield, which I'm guessing there is not, engineering for yield will be very complex. It may happen eventually, but through the coming decades, we must assume that gene engineering will not be the answer to the world's food problems.

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• ‟ Supplying food to sub-Saharan African countries is made very complex because of a lack of infrastructure.

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• ‟ When the Nobel Peace Prize Committee designated me the recipient of the 1970 award for my contribution to the 'green revolution,' they were in effect, I believe, selecting an individual to symbolize the vital role of agriculture and food production in a world that is hungry, both for bread and for peace.

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