Norman Borlaug died on September 12. To say that he saved over a billion lives is not hyperbole. Do you know how he accomplished this? It wasn't with community gardens, local food, slow food, organic food, or whatever the fashion is now. He did it with science. Here's what he said just a few weeks before he died:

Even here at home, some elements of popular culture romanticize older, inefficient production methods and shun fertilizers and pesticides, arguing that the U.S. should revert to producing only local organic food. People should be able to purchase organic food if they have the will and financial means to do so, but not at the expense of the world’s hungry—25,000 of whom die each day from malnutrition.

The boy throws the stone in jest; the frog dies in earnest.