"It would have been the world's largest Bloody Mary if it failed."

- Philip Nelson, 2007 World Food Prize laureate, speaking about an early experiment in which he poured thousands of gallons of fresh chopped tomatoes into a huge germ-free tank to see if he could store the food without refrigeration.

He eventually succeeded and won the prize for his work.

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"I would ask the men if they cooked, and they looked at me as if I were from Mars!"

- Former World Food Program head and food prize laureate Catherine Bertini, describing visits to African villages. In much of the underdeveloped world, she said, women find the water, gather and transport the firewood AND do the cooking.

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"I elieve there is a special place in hell for women who don't support other women."

- Catherine Bertini, quoting former U.S. Secretary of State Madelyn Allbright.

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"We are seeing the end of an empire and the beginning of another."

- Roberto Rodrigues, former Brazilian agriculture minister on the end of oil and the dawning an a biofuel age.

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"It is what people are calling the 'meals for wheels' tradeoff."

- Zhangliang Chen, President, China Agricultural University, describing fears that farmland put into production for biofuel crops will take land out of production for food.

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"Yuck!"

- Catherine Bertini, recalling World Food Program attempts to formulate a mission statement around language about "alleviating" hunger. The WFP mission was to END hunger, she said.

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