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
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• Green
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• environmentalism
• starvation
• agriculture
• GM
• food

[MrPhilosophyPunk1]

Norman Borlaug is such a badass!!!!

[PimguimF]

Very imparcial.... not

[TheSmarterBrother]

If this were a just world, there would be monuments raised to this man, and universities all over the world named after Norman Borlaug.

[THELADYSTAB]

bad, bad narrator, you abusive asshole. yes it can feed the world but no thats not where its headed the corporations want to patent these GE plants as they cant patent current plants, the do have some scary shit in it NZ scientist even agree my home is GE free as a result which i feel privileged about. a third of the world is obese and a third starving heres a bright idea tell the fatties to fuck off and that they have had enough the fat ones are eating the starving ones food!

[TheMalar]

@Frankenpalin So you don't want to GE crops be sterile and you don't want the GE crops to crossbreed with non modified crops. Makes perfect sense!

[Yeoldevideos]

@WeareDivine Even though history has shown mankind to be greedy, you don't really believe it to be so greedy as to allow corporations to completely own all plant life?

There is no price tag on the billions of people whose lives has been saved because of GMO.

[WeareDivine]

@zachaweful i take no offense to this, i love you.

[zachaweful]

@WeareDivine This is so wrong that words fail me. You are completely fucking retarded. Please go put a helmet on so you don't accidentally hurt yourself.

[xhalosbitchx]

@WeareDivine Unless you continue to plant more completely organic crops. Or just simply separate the GMOs from the organic foods entirely.

[cursivebluedragon]

@WeareDivine And then instead of third world countries starving, the entire world will starve. Well, those who can't afford to buy from Monstato. We will be under their control very soon!

[Frankenpalin]

@Uuuurk That doesn't explain the kill switch engineered into the crop to make it sterile. I think it's dangerous and unethical to fuck with the food supply like that and I can definitely blame Monsanto for that, they made it that way on purpose.