3.Norman Borlaug - A PROFILE (GM Watch)
John Vidal
The Guardian, October 6, 2004
http://society.guardian.co.uk/societyguardian/story/0,7843,1320123,00.html
Technophobes started making a mess
of Norman Borlaug's great success.
Green groups thought they found the cure in stinky piles of cow manure..."
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=7370
http://www.gmwatch.org/p1temp.asp?pid=86&page=1
Marc Hansen
Des Moines Register, July 19 2007
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070719/OPINION01/707190406
but listen and take this to the bank:|
If there's food in your tummy then you'd better thank N-O-R-M-A-N.
Millions of people were starving, yo
in Pakistan, India, Mexico.
But just a few years after Norman came,
They all had bumper crops of grain.
Norman found the great solution,
known as the Green Revolution.
Billions of people are alive today
because of work done by the man named
Norman.
Using science and your brain
To stamp out hunger, woe and pain.
Creating new varieties
of plants with new technologies.
You're the man we look up to.
That is why we're thanking you.
Technophobes started making a mess
of Norman Borlaug's great success.
Jimmy Carter, ex-president,
to help all the African residents.
Norman and Jimmy hopped in a plane
to help the Africans grow more grain.
Soon the men were able to triple
corn yields that the Greens had crippled.
Got the highest scientific acclaim,
and now you better know his name is
Norman.
http://www.gmwatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=24
Borlaug is a keen supporter of the 'gene revolution' and of CS Prakash and his AgBioWorld Foundation. Like a number of key Prakash supporters, Borlaug serves on the board of directors of the American Council on Science and Health which crusades against 'health scares' and derives its funding from extensive corporate backing (e.g. Monsanto, Dow, Cyanamid).