Food in Abundanee
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the Swedes have expressed the hope that FPC will be accepted as an
additive in the industrialized countries as a prelude to a major
marketing effort in the developing countries. The problem is to
persuade people of the benets to be gained from eating ‘reinforced’
foods. One suggestion is that FPC should be added to processed
foods of the ‘breakfast cereal’ type which are often rm favourites of
children. Young children, it is felt, tend to have fewer prejudices
about what they eat and, more important, protein malnutrition has
its most damaging effects during these formative years.
Under new management?
Without proper management the considerable progress in
sheries technology—detecting, catching and processing—witnessed
in the past twenty years or so may well lead to a considerable decline
in the very industry it has been developed to support. During what
scientists have called the ‘Pleistocene overkill’, some ten thousand
years ago, our ancestors probably accounted for the extinction of
over a hundred of the large mammals native to the North American
continent. In the last century, a reputedly more civilized breed of
man has been emulating his primitive forebears by mustering the
full force of his technology in order to hunt relentlessly those large
mammals, the whales, that live in the southern polar seas. Recently,
responsibility for the number of whales caught each year has rested
with the International Whaling Commission. For many years it was
claimed that these quotas were set too high but advice from scientists,
at rst three and later four, invited by the Commission to assess
available supplies, that the quotas should be drastically reduced was
consistently ignored. As a result a once—protable industry has been
brought to its knees. In a ve—year period from 1961 to 1966 the
number of whaling expeditions to the Antarctic fell from twenty—
one to ten while in the 1968—69 season, only two countries—Japan
and the USSR—sent eets to that region. Far more whales are now
caught outside these waters: in the 1966—67 season 15,265 whales
were taken in the Antarctic compared with 31,470 whales caught
elsewhere.
Our ancestors may be forgiven for their lack of concern during the
Pleistocene Age but little sympathy can be extended to those
nations who for immediate gain continued to Over-exploit the
Antarctic whales. At the meeting of the Commission in july 1963,
the scientic committee advised that hunting of the blue whale and
45
the Swedes have expressed the hope that FPC will be accepted as an
additive in the industrialized countries as a prelude to a major
marketing effort in the developing countries. The problem is to
persuade people of the benets to be gained from eating ‘reinforced’
foods. One suggestion is that FPC should be added to processed
foods of the ‘breakfast cereal’ type which are often rm favourites of
children. Young children, it is felt, tend to have fewer prejudices
about what they eat and, more important, protein malnutrition has
its most damaging effects during these formative years.
Under new management?
Without proper management the considerable progress in
sheries technology—detecting, catching and processing—witnessed
in the past twenty years or so may well lead to a considerable decline
in the very industry it has been developed to support. During what
scientists have called the ‘Pleistocene overkill’, some ten thousand
years ago, our ancestors probably accounted for the extinction of
over a hundred of the large mammals native to the North American
continent. In the last century, a reputedly more civilized breed of
man has been emulating his primitive forebears by mustering the
full force of his technology in order to hunt relentlessly those large
mammals, the whales, that live in the southern polar seas. Recently,
responsibility for the number of whales caught each year has rested
with the International Whaling Commission. For many years it was
claimed that these quotas were set too high but advice from scientists,
at rst three and later four, invited by the Commission to assess
available supplies, that the quotas should be drastically reduced was
consistently ignored. As a result a once—protable industry has been
brought to its knees. In a ve—year period from 1961 to 1966 the
number of whaling expeditions to the Antarctic fell from twenty—
one to ten while in the 1968—69 season, only two countries—Japan
and the USSR—sent eets to that region. Far more whales are now
caught outside these waters: in the 1966—67 season 15,265 whales
were taken in the Antarctic compared with 31,470 whales caught
elsewhere.
Our ancestors may be forgiven for their lack of concern during the
Pleistocene Age but little sympathy can be extended to those
nations who for immediate gain continued to Over-exploit the
Antarctic whales. At the meeting of the Commission in july 1963,
the scientic committee advised that hunting of the blue whale and