Source: Julie Borlaug, DES MOINES REGISTER, 10/14/13


Editor's Note: JULIE BORLAUG is associate director of external relations at the Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. She is the granddaughter of Norman Borlaug, the founder of the World Food Prize. Contact: Jborlaug@ag.tamu.edu.

When a committee of distinguished scientists chose three biotechnology pioneers to receive the 2013 World Food Prize on Thursday night, they surely knew the response in some quarters would be utter horror.

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