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“Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.”

Norman Borlaug · Food

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Norman Borlaug

For, behind the scenes, halfway around the world in Mexico, were two decades of aggressive research on wheat that not only enabled Mexico to become self-sufficient with respect to wheat production but also paved the way to rapid increase in its production in other countries.

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Norman Borlaug

Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.

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Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.

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Norman Borlaug

Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread otherwise there will be no peace.

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