CHAPTER I
Food in Abundance
The gap between the rich and the poor nations of the world grows greater
every day. This unattractive situation is further aggravated by the
population explosion with its prospect of even more mouthsto feedin
years to
Today more than 3,400 million people inhabit the earth.
B y the year 2000 this population will have more than doubkd. And yet
already many people have to survive on paltry diets, children grow up
dwarfed and crippled, while thousands more do not live to see their
_h birthday. Approximately If5 thousand million people, ‘ largely/in
tropical and sub—tropical areas of the world, rely on one
generally a root or cereal crop whose protein
in one or more
of ten amino acids essential to human nutrition—. In contrast to this, in
North America only about a quarter of the diet consists of such foods,
in Britain the proportion is_ slightly higher, 31 per cent, and in Europe
as a whole it is about 50 per cent. In other words both quantity and
quality offood supplies in developing countries must be improved if the
present alarnzingtoll of human life is'to be prevented.
‘
‘
,
—
ONE way of improving the quality of the
distribute available Supplies to ensure a…
instead of relying "on the single
-
have a vegetable ‘cocktail’
they receiVed-=_the essential
amino acids and other constituents of a healthy
perhaps more feasible solution is to supplementth€:predciminanÿ
vegetable'diet
protein. Very little:‘=bfrthis
supplementary protein is needed—some 10
îperAnd this is where man might
protably
world sh catch of 1964contained in theordetbf 1751 thousand
million pounds
This would be ‘ adequate to*sùpplemth
«the îëdiet*of tWo thousand. million
Would haVe Îbeen
*
25
.
Food in Abundance
The gap between the rich and the poor nations of the world grows greater
every day. This unattractive situation is further aggravated by the
population explosion with its prospect of even more mouthsto feedin
years to
Today more than 3,400 million people inhabit the earth.
B y the year 2000 this population will have more than doubkd. And yet
already many people have to survive on paltry diets, children grow up
dwarfed and crippled, while thousands more do not live to see their
_h birthday. Approximately If5 thousand million people, ‘ largely/in
tropical and sub—tropical areas of the world, rely on one
generally a root or cereal crop whose protein
in one or more
of ten amino acids essential to human nutrition—. In contrast to this, in
North America only about a quarter of the diet consists of such foods,
in Britain the proportion is_ slightly higher, 31 per cent, and in Europe
as a whole it is about 50 per cent. In other words both quantity and
quality offood supplies in developing countries must be improved if the
present alarnzingtoll of human life is'to be prevented.
‘
‘
,
—
ONE way of improving the quality of the
distribute available Supplies to ensure a…
instead of relying "on the single
-
have a vegetable ‘cocktail’
they receiVed-=_the essential
amino acids and other constituents of a healthy
perhaps more feasible solution is to supplementth€:predciminanÿ
vegetable'diet
protein. Very little:‘=bfrthis
supplementary protein is needed—some 10
îperAnd this is where man might
protably
world sh catch of 1964contained in theordetbf 1751 thousand
million pounds
This would be ‘ adequate to*sùpplemth
«the îëdiet*of tWo thousand. million
Would haVe Îbeen
*
25
.