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Norman Borlaug
Type Individual
Position Nobel laureate Plant Genetics Father Green Revoloution
Political Party Other
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Norman Borlaug's Friends
DuPont
Borlaug began his career as a microbiologist at DuPont in Delaware. He led the research on industrial and agricultural bacteriocides, fungicides, and preservatives which have evolved to the pesticide...


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The Rockefeller Foundation
In 1964 The Rockefeller and Ford Foundations moved the Borlaug research on gene altered plants to a place where they face fewer challenges. They created the CIMMYT in Mexico.


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Ford Foundation
In 1964 The Rockefeller and Ford Foundations moved the Borlaug research on gene altered plants to a place where they face fewer challenges and created the CIMMYT in Mexico. Details at Rockefeller Fo...


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World Bank
With the biggest right wing think tanks and chemical manufacturers supporting Borlaug it would have to follow the World Bank would add their financial support for years of "Green Development".


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Anne Veneman
The USDA secretary is so tightly tied to Biotech the agency had a 90th birthday party for Borlaug sharing cake and celebrating Government and Industry working hand in hand.


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American Council on Science and Health (ACSH)
Borlaug sits on the Board of Directors for this Industry funded front group. ACSH was formed to destroy the Delaney Clause which prohibited known carcinogens from compromising foods. They've succee...


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Texas A&M University
Research centers funded to develop new petrochemical variety crops bear his name including the Norman E. Borlaug Center for Southern Crop Improvement, created at Texas A&M University in 1999.


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George W. Bush
The President known as the best friend to big oil and big business Washington has ever had bestowed his "Science Award" on Borlaug February 13, 2006.


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Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Monsanto's Board members at Danforth Center recognised Borlaug's contributions. He was awarded the Danforth Award for Plant Science by the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St Louis, Missouri in...


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Industry Funded Front Organizations
More than any other individual, this Nobel Prize winner has become the poster boy for the American Oil and Chemical Companies bogus science and Greenwashing campaigns.


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Reason Foundation
Many of the awards and recognition for Borlaug tie to the Foundation and its financial supporters. Their Reason Magazine has published accolades of his "Green Revoloution" and elevated his image as ...


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Reason Magazine
Reason featured Borlaug's "Green Revoloution" as it did other bogus science sponsored by industry front organizations like pro tobacco, Science in the Public Interest columnist Fumento.


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USAID
Through Borlaug's Institute SOYA aka GMO soy is distributed to African countries. The patent protected, pesticide varieties have been rejected by many of the AID countries because royalties are due M...


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Planet Aid Inc. Food For Progress
Operating as part of Borlaug's Foundations to promote billions in Frankenfood soya, banned in the EU and other countries as USAID to starving Africans.


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AgBio World
The AgBioWorld 'Declaration in Support of Agricultural Biotechnology' has been endorsed by Dr. Norman Borlaug,who's businesses and USAID get millions from the chemical pharmafarmers.


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Consumer Alert
Borlaug is on the CA Board and several chemical company fronts groups. Borlaug is credited with being the "Father of the Green Revoloution", the use of chemicals in Third World Agriculture, proven d...


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ISAAA - International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications
Borlaug runs a series of programs linked to the biotech fronts labled as part of the Green Revoloution but ISAAA’s projects use the poverty of small farmers to justify the technology and only corpora...


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Biotech Brigade
Borlaug has his own USAID programs, serves on the board of directors of the ACSH which crusades against 'health scares' and gets its funding from Monsanto, Dow, Cyanamid etc.


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Dr. C.S. Prakash
From the Africa Bio resume, " Dr. Prakash is the founder of AgBioWorld and received endorsements from more than 1,200 scientists from across the world for his petition in support of agricultural bio...


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Greg Conko
First the US announced the WTO suit against the EU then held the CEI seminar on the "negative impact" of the EU GMO moratorium on the developing world, addressed by Conko, Norman Borlaug, C. S. Praka...


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Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa—AGRA
Borlaug has been the poster boy for the Rockefeller "Green Revolution" scam, it has been very green-$$$ for Rockefeller and Borlaug, a loss for their beneficiaries.


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Ingo Potrykus
Potrykus names and cites Borlaug in his gmo marketing bit pitching Golden Rice. Stormin' Norman is the Green Revolution poster boy. Worth noting 8 years later it takes 12 pounds of the enhanced ric...


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Norman E. Borlaug International Agricultural Science and Technology Fellows Program
The USDA site lists the spin version of the global hunger crisis and Rockefeller's poster boy for chemical intensive farming, ignoring the fact that most starvation is still related to lack of acces ...


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Congress
"In 2006, Dr. Borlaug received the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor, the highest civilian award, for his lifetime contributions to improving international agriculture and global food security." If ...


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India
The hype masks the fact that those nations are less able to feed their own people now than they were when the Green Revolution swept through polluting waterways and sewing chemical related illness. ...


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World Food Prize
The "Prize" was invented by Borlaug, poster boy for the use of chemically intensive farming practices. Their PR Press Release below.


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Charles Grassley
The Senate resolution to honor Dr. Borlaug was introduced by Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) and Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) Rep. Latham, Rep. Leonard Boswell (D-IA), Rep. Jim Leach (R-IA) and Rep. Steve Kin...


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Tom Harkin
The Senate resolution to honor Dr. Borlaug was introduced by Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) and Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) Rep. Latham, Rep. Leonard Boswell (D-IA), Rep. Jim Leach (R-IA) and Rep. Steve Kin...


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Borlaug Fellows Program Nations
Part of the network of NGO's to move petrochemical profits under the guise of aid.


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Science Medal of Honor
Winners 2004 - Norman E. Borlaug, Phillip A. Sharp, Thomas E. Starzl, full list of winners below


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Tom Vilsack
BIO 2000 Keynote speech in support of gmo crops - "Iowan, Norman Borlaug, considered the father of the green revolution, signed a letter along with a thousand other noted scientists from around the w...


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Badrinarayan R. Barwale
Barwale is a winner of the World Food Prize, created in 1986 by Norman Borlaug. The winners are traditionally agribusiness and gmo/biotech supporters. Awards go to all star sales team, to cite when...


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Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds
Founder of Mahyco, Barwale is a winner of the World Food Prize, created in 1986 by Norman Borlaug. The winners are traditionally agribusiness and gmo/biotech supporters. Awards go to all star sales t...


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GMO Africa Blog
Norman Borlaug Is The Greatest Living American Saving People and Nature With The “Green Revolution” a Monsanto's GMO Africa Blogger features Dennis Avery of CGFI.


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Clive James
Earlier, he was deputy director general at the Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) in Mexico, where he worked with Norman Borlaug.


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John Gottula
Dr. Boulaug and partners have granted much of the world food security without sacrificing more wilderness to agricultural production. John hopes to carry on this tradition.


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CGIAR Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
From an article written by Norman Borlaug - "In 1971, the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations, the World Bank, FAO, UNDP, and USAID created CGIAR, a donors' club dedicated to funding an expanded interna...


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Hugh Grant
September 23, 2008 - GM Watch: Michael Pollan and Monsanto CEO at Google on YouTube [Monsanto CEO Hugh] Grant commented, "Norman Borlaug, the architect of the Green Revolution and my personal hero, ...


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Kenya
So in 2005, Borlaug, the old knight, trumpeted the alarm and again rode into battle. He was 91 when he convened the Borlaug Global Rust Initiative, a gathering of the world's leading wheat experts fr...


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Monsanto
October 15, The Monsanto Beachell-Borlaug International Scholars Program announced 12 recipients of the program’s 2009 fellowships today at the Borlaug Dialogue at the World Food Prize in Des Moines,...


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University of Minnesota
EDUCATION: - BS Forestry, University of Minnesota, 1937 - MS Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, 1940 - Ph.D. Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, 1942


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Mexico
The U. S. Forest Service, 1935-38 - Instructor, University of Minnesota, 1941 - Microbiologist, E. I. DuPont de Nemours, 1942-44 - Research Scientist in charge Wheat Improvement in Cooperative Me...


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Center for Consumer Freedom,
September 14, 2009 - Norman Borlaug, R.I.P. - We read with sadness that Norman Borlaug, leader of the Green Revolution, passed away yesterday. Borlaug, called “the man who fed the world,” helped deve...


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Rick Berman
Berman's biotech front group, Center for Consumer Freedom has begun the spin on Borlaug, from the botnist of the 1970's to the new GMO Saviot "We haven’t seen any Chicken Little reactions (yet), but ...


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Silent Spring - Rachel Carson
Several years after Rachel Carlson published her historic work The Silent Spring, I asked Borlaug whether he had read it: "She is an evil force," he reacted angrily, adding: "These are the people who...


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Monsanto's Beachell-Borlaug International Scholars Program
. The program honors the accomplishments of Dr. Henry Beachell and Dr. Norman Borlaug, who pioneered plant breeding and research in rice and wheat, respectively.


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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Both Pioneer and Monsanto are working with scientists at the research center that has long been associated with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Norman Borlaug, who is considered the father of the Green Re...


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Excellence Through Stewardship
Site leads off with Rockefeller Poster Boy Borlaug. ~Safe Biotech Foods On Our Plates~ "Genetic modification of crops is not some kind of witchcraft; rather, it is the progressive harnessing of the ...


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