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The Biological Sciences—A Base for Animal Sciences¹

University of Florida, Gainesville

Abstract

I do not need to remind this group that behind every international evaluation of programs in agriculture and, therefore, behind an evaluation of animal science, there is today a sense of urgency brought on by the tremendous explosion in the world's population and the failure of food production to keep up with that population increase.

You have been told, as I have, that millions of people are receiving insufficient food, particularly insufficient protein, and that meeting the needs of adequate nutrition for these people would require an increase in our food production of somewhere around 20%. This does not take into account the increase in population and, therefore, continuing need for improvement in our production of food stuffs. I have visited some of these countries where population is outrunning food production, and I cannot seriously doubt that the statisticians are right when they predict a population of between 6 and 7 billion by the year 2,000.

¹ Presented at the General Session, 60th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Animal Science, July 28–August 1, 1968, University of Oklahoma, Stillwater.

² Director, Biological Sciences and Research Professor of Nutrition, University of Florida, Gainesville.