Norman Boulaug
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Dr Norman Borlaug was a Nobel Prize recipient and both a Director and Advisor to Elizabeth Whelan and Frederick Stare's chemical industry lobby operation known as American Council on Science and Health.
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1985 Oct-Nov: He was a keynote speaker at Elizabeth Whelan's American Council of Science and Health seminar "Environmental Risks: Priorities for the Eighties" (The ACSH was an American Chemical Council lobby). Boulaug was then the Distinguished Professor of International Agriculture in the Department of Soil and Crop Sciencesat Texas A&M University.
Dr. Norman Borlaug emphasized that there is an unwarranted, rampant chemical-phobia in the American public. He warned,
"In industrialized America in 1985, we have the luxury to worry about the 'carcinogen of the week' and 'toxin of the month.' We have sufficient food, housing, energy, medical supplies and other necessities of life. But we should all keep in mind the reality that a world without industrial chemicals would be a very different one. Banning chemical fertilizers and pesticides will inevitably lead to deadly serious food shortages..Jt's as simple as that That is the price the 'toxic terrorists' are asking us to pay.""[1]
- Two seminars were held in Washington DC (Oct 16) and New York (Nov 13) both funded by the John M Olin Foundation.
