When wheat is ripening properly, when the wind is blowing across the field, you can hear the beards of the wheat rubbing together. They sound like the pine needles in a forest. It is a sweet, whispering music that once you hear, you never forget.

Norman Borlaug
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  1. You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.

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

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

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