Norm Borlaug, “Father of the Green Revolution,” got the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his work advocating science to feed the poor. Because of his work, a strain of “miracle rice” 10 times more productive than its predecessors was in fields across Asia, third world grain production has tripled since the 1960s, and India is now a major rice exporter.
Borlaug was the prototype for a science-based environmentalist but today, environmentalism is instead a Political Action Committee and their positions have nothing to do with food or helping the poor, and are instead progressive self-identification and creating a First World idyll certain to doom the developing world.
Anti-GMO activists are now out to destroy Borlaug's legacy, and watching corporations scramble away from anyone in science who defends genetic modification, it is easy to see how the anti-science side is winning.
