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Animal Agriculture in a global Context¹

Rowett Research Institute, Bucksburn, Aberdeen, Scotland

Abstract

Concerned and fascinated though each one of us may be with the detail of particular aspects of animal production in our own countries, on occasion we all attempt to think about die wider issues on which our studies impinge, on the world as a whole, on the growth of its population, on the adequacy of its food supply and inevitably on the future role of animal and crop production in meeting human needs. Thinking globally in conceptually easy. Space exploration has shown us our planet, free in space, apparently concrete and seemingly homogeneous. The vast distances from which photographs of earth have been taken, however, obliterate the detail. A similar obliteration of detail and complexity takes place when we attempt to produce explanations or make predictions on a global scale about agriculture, food and human welfare. Subdivision helps. We can divide the world into the north and the south, set

¹ Keynote address presented to members and guests of the Amer. Soc. of Anim. Sci. meeting jointly with the Can. Soc. of Anim. Sci., Univ. of Guelph, War Memorial Hall, Guelph, Ontario, Canada; August 9, 1982.

² Present Address: Stradbroke Hall, Stradbroke, Suffolk IP21 5HH, England.