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Support for Research in Animal Sciences¹

Abstract

I am very glad to have the opportunity to address this Symposium. In this capacity, I am substituting for Dr. George W. Irving, Jr., the speaker originally scheduled as keynoter. Perhaps some of you do not know that Dr. Irving retired last week as Administrator of the Agricultural Research Service.

This opportunity provides me with a forum for discussing a subject that is of deep personal concern to me: support for research in animal science.

I firmly believe that research will be a key factor in the future success of the livestock industry. Without a strong research effort to back it up, progress within the industry will be all but impossible. Perhaps, the dire predictions that some of the industry's critics are making will come to pass.

Most of these predictions are familiar to all of us. For example: Meat animals are becoming obsolete. Man is destined to become a cereal and vegetable protein eater.

¹ Presented as part of a Symposium on Support for Research in Animal Sciences, Annual Meeting of American Society of Animal Science, Davis, California, August 2, 1971.

² Deputy Administrator-Livestock Research, Agricultural Research Service, U.S.D.A., Washington, D. C. 20250.