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I know this is an old video but Norman Borlaug died September 12, 2009. I was amazed that it took me four days to find out about the death of one of the greatest men who ever lived.

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Mister : LVL 31: VP 4: said:

Mister

49 votes NegativePositive

184 days 12 hours ago...

5/5 people need to hear about this man. He is a man that should be remembered.

bebopbren : LVL 38: VP 4.6: said:

bebopbren

Hidden (Show Comment) -8 votes

184 days 12 hours ago...

mono-culture and Monsanto are not things I would want associated with my work.

Props to his intention though.

SickP : LVL 17: VP 2.6: said:

SickP

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184 days 11 hours ago...

1/3 of the population should volunteer to die so that we can all go back to organic food.

exploder : LVL 50: VP 5: said:

exploder

33 votes NegativePositive

184 days 9 hours ago...

^ No, 1% of the rich motherfuckers who run our world should be publicly hanged so we can do something other than war and insane industrialism producing plastic landfill available in a Walmart near you. If people weren`t being led into cities like sheeple, they could grow their own damned organic food. But it`s not easy to make a cut off the top of someones family garden now is it? Nooooo, McGreaseburger is MUCH easier to skim; at the till, in taxes, in low wages, at the gas pump when they commute from the suckburbs to their McMinimumWage McJob, in the jails their kids end up in when they figure out it`s fucking pointless and sell drugs instead (why try in school when you end up working fucking McMorons anyways), in drug profits from the Ritalin they take because their brains are made from and running on the shit they eat, and later on when they need bypass surgery.

We have a sick sick sick and twisted world. Twisted around the diamond rings and Rolexes of rich fucks with no vision or humanity beyond the hope of big yachts, summer mansions, and retirement in villas in places that most of us can`t get through the gates of, unless we have a security clearance, to sweep their floors. Any decisions they make are either towards or away from those outcomes, and the lower class mess we live is our problem, unless we dare threaten their precious profits in any way. You just try to organize something that rocks the boat by really helping poor people get together. You threaten ONE rich pricks profit by 1%, and you will be out of business by law and or a cap in you ass.

Norman Borlaug was a real hero. He did what he needed to do to feed those people. The fact that he played into the hands of big agrobusiness is sad, but big business is MAFIA, and they fucking kill "commies" who try to help people get independently strong and avoid the system. Norman took the opportunity and got the job done. If there were more like him, especially making real decisions, our world would be a much saner and kinder place.

Violetninja420 : LVL 39: VP 4.7: said:

Violetninja420

57 votes NegativePositive

184 days 2 hours ago...

*gasp* he died!? I never even heard about that till now. Fuckin Kanye west and Partrick swayze distracting me from infinitly more important shit. This guy should have his own day to be honoured in all countries.

R.I.P.

roflninja : LVL 33: VP 4.2: said:

roflninja

1 votes NegativePositive

181 days 16 hours ago...

Give me convenience or give me death.

funberg : LVL 49: VP 5: said:

funberg

11 votes NegativePositive

181 days 15 hours ago...

The only time I saw that he died was at 2 in the morning when I came home wasted and all the headlines were gone 6 hours later when I woke up. Bummed me out, but even though I agree that he is the greatest man to ever live, I instantly conceded that his death wouldn`t put a dent in Jacksons death, let alone know that his death would be eclipsed by Patrick Swayzes future death.But seriously Jacksons and Swayzes death will be reported, days, weeks, and surely months after Borlaugs, who was literally, in a time of great hyperbole, the greatest man to ever live. Fuck us!

Yankmaven : LVL 9: VP 1.8: said:

Yankmaven

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181 days 12 hours ago...

http://58b33nflv6ipt9dzomycrcwz40.hop.clickbank.net/

incognito1 : LVL 1: VP 1: said:

incognito1

9 votes NegativePositive

181 days 11 hours ago...

Hogo - With that logic no one should be allowed to reproduce since they will end up increasing the death toll. Population growth is inevitable. Starvation and disease will always try to keep it in check.

Yankmaven - Makes me feel Hogo is totally right on.

GimpsterSJ : LVL 21: VP 3: said:

GimpsterSJ

9 votes NegativePositive

181 days 11 hours ago...

I`ll bet he wasn`t even thinking about how he`d be remembered, he just wanted to do the right thing.

exploder : LVL 50: VP 5: said:

exploder

2 votes NegativePositive

181 days 10 hours ago...

^hugo, if those people still haven`t figured it out, they are doomed anyways. It`s not Borlaug`s fault. If you`re worried abouth them, then stand up like a man and help them figure out how to help themselves. Hint: the internet is the tool, because ignorance is the problem, isolation is the hole, and the internet is the ladder out. It`s also a portal out of bronze-age cultures into the present, where we have the knowledge to do something more productive than pray for answers to real problems. Thank god ;)

Rejeckted : LVL 3: VP 1.2: said:

Rejeckted

3 votes NegativePositive

181 days 10 hours ago...

5/5 Never known him till now. I get chills when i think this is what humankind could be like. If only everyone strived to be half the man Norman was.

pEAGER : LVL 26: VP 3.5: said:

pEAGER

-7 votes NegativePositive

181 days 3 hours ago...

exploder, stfu. your not changing anyones life with your dumb "fuck the rich" rants

Drue : LVL 36: VP 4.4: said:

Drue

2 votes NegativePositive

181 days 1 hour ago...

5/5 for this hell of man. Plus an extra point for the Carl Sagan reference.

kintekobo : LVL 38: VP 4.6: said:

kintekobo

-2 votes NegativePositive

181 days 1 hour ago...

In the words of Clare Booth Luce - - - "No good deed goes unpunished"
The bastards just took longer to get to him, but i bet the lymphoma was caused by the CIA, or some-such.
BTW. Do I sound paranoid? The voices in my head tell me I`m not.

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