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Suggestions^* Regarding Research Work in Animal Nutrition

Abstract

These suggestions deal only with the question of the protein requirement of domestic animals.

Relation of animal to human nutrition.—The fundamental importance of the minimum protein requirement of man, has led to many experiments on man and on the lower animals. In spite of these many experiments, there is wide diversity of opinion with regard to the optimum protein requirement of man. While this society is primarily organized for studying the nutrition of animals, and while too many deductions in the fields of physiology and pharmacology have been made with regard to results obtained on animals as applicable to man, yet the hearing of animal nutrition on human nutrition is certainly not to be lost sight of, and any experiments that are planned to simultaneously give information regarding animal nutrition and likewise illuminate the field of human nutrition should be especially acceptable and profitable. The expensive portion of the ration both for man and for animals being protein, the question has a far reaching economic value aside from the most interesting fundamentally scientific value.

^* The suggestions contained in this paper were referred to the Committee on Experiments for their consideration.