When he [Norman Borlaug] won the Nobel Prize in 1970, they said he had saved a billion people. That's BILLION! "BUH!" That's Carl Sagan billion with a "B". And most of them were of different race from him. Norman is the greatest human being. And you've probably never heard of him.
“Eat This!” · Season 1, Episode 11
In this episode: Penn (3)
Throughout history there's never been an overabundance of food. All food is the product of technology; apples, corn, tomatoes, all modified. Every food has been changed through selective breeding or grafting. For ten thousand years each attempt at improvement has changed the DNA of the plant. Now some people are up-in-arms about changes in DNA. Well, you know what? If you’re able to get up and have food, you should celebrate. We should all dance about how much food we have. Why is anyone fighting food advance? A very small percentage of the world's population is fortunate enough to have the luxury of turning down food. The rest of the world spends most of its time trying to get any food. You know why? Technological problems. They got dirt, they got water, they got sun. They lack the technical ability to till or enrich the soil. They lack the machines to plant enough to feed their families. They lack the hybrid plants that produce more food per acre. We need to spread all the technology all we can, so all people everywhere can deal with the problem of too much food. We can't start getting picky because we've got enough food—that's just self-centered and racist. Unless you and yours are starving, YOU need to SHUT THE FUCK UP!
NBNorman Borlaug
[on the possibility of a world-wide switch to organic farming] We are almost 6.6 billion people, now. We can only feed about two-thirds of them. I don't see 2 billion volunteers to disappear.
[after some raw-foodists try to foist their food on other people, being rejected in the process]
We're pretty sure that if you live in a beach-house in the US, you probably shouldn't be trying to tell starving people in the rest of the world that you're fighting the technology that could feed their children.
NBNorman Borlaug
You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.
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