Norman Borlaug on Penn and Teller: BS

Normal Borlaug is an agricultural scientist and the father of the Green Revolution, directly responsible for saving over a billion lives from starvation in the third world through the spread and advance of genetically modified crops and technology. He's spent his life saving people and improving the world. This clip is from the Penn and Teller: Bullshit! episode Eat This! from Season 1, on diets and world hunger. He's truly a great, great person, and I wanted to share the word, as far too few people know about Borlaug and his work.

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• Borlaug
• Penn
• Gillette
• Teller
• BS
• Bullshit
• Green
• Revolution
• environmentalism
• starvation
• agriculture
• GM
• food

[Xerock]

@searchanddiscover

There's disturbing levels of unscientific hysteria on both sides. Look at the anti-vaccine people, PeTA, the tree huggers who cry when a tree falls down, vegans who think personal ethics can overcome human biology (they're just as stupid as reich wingers who think you can "pray the gay away"). It can be hard to be a progressive when you're surrounded by anti-scientific loons.

[Xerock]

What Norman Borlaug did was great. What Monsanto (another CATO member, like Penn Jillette) did with Norman's science is criminal.

[brilliantmistake34]

i want to see you nay sayers when your families are starving i bet you'll. eat that "Frankenstein" food then huh

[KryzMasta]

"They're really getting away with these, like, insane, Frankenstein-type experiments, that are just, like, scary, if you really look into what they're putting, they're shooting into the protein and the changing the cells, and the DNA."

Oh lord, hippy-turned-scientist? :D She has no clue...

[searchanddiscover]

i used to be a diehard liberal until i started paying more attention to exactly what environmentalists wanted to do and how many of their ideas were really just them forcing their own idea of living onto us through heavy taxation. since then i have become less and less liberal, and more and more moderate.

[junoguten]

Oh I forgot to mention. Maybe they'd want organic, non chemical, non GE, non domesticized bananas, instead of the ones they buy in the stores. Afterall, they were 'intelligently designed' with us in mind >.> oh that's right, unless you're a cow or something you can't even digest it without boiling it first.

[junoguten]

Whenever this episode was shot: ca. 6.2 bill. ---> Now: ca. 7 bill. It's scary, isn't it? We really needed that guy. And now we need more guys like him.

[johnnyboy41]

Check out Monsanto and Patented seeds.. take a look at mass suicides in farmers in Pakistan, as for feeding the world take a look at Permaculture and greening the desert with Geoff Lawton *you can find the video on you tube* check out factory farming in Food Inc, Take a look at check out Bio-piracy in India? watch the world according to Monsanto ... better yet check out King Corn... and if you want to make childish attacks..your really welcome to do that too... but know what your talking about.

[185tiff]

7 billion now

[myndy86]

@brfowlie You are attempting to change the subject, but your own argument can be used against you "Everything is fucked, and the world is WAYYY too complicated to have an easy solution like "GM crops" (bullshit) work the way you say it will. Why can't you just admit to it? Organic farming is the best option available to help poor countries, the huge majority of GM crops were designed to be sprayed with glyphosate or glufosinate, and like I asked before, how does that help poor people?