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Show Fortification: A Solution j fm Relieving World Hunger? q Frustration and failure highlight mankind's struggle to over-'o'.i'! over-'o'.i'! huncnr throughout the world. Urgent s the need for action by business, Industry and world no'-i-rinpnts, to eliminate the blight of hunger and malnutrition r,d erase forever the spectacle of adults who walk as skeletons, .,iwi v;hcse bellies are bloated from hunger In the Inter-n':r.noal Inter-n':r.noal Year of the Child. Amino cid fortification of food and animal feed can free A worH from much of Its present suffering. It is a sound, .v.it'iitiric development, now economically viable. It Is a itutiitlooRl method whose time has come. Amino acids are chemical compounds. They are building ' kcks of protein. They boost the nutritional value of animal rt-ed. They compensate for shortages of fish meal and enhance the efficiency of grain feed and defatted oilseed diets. Thus they can Improve the health of millions around this hungry world. There arc medical values In amino acids, too. They relieve rijfJVrlzig from Infection, cancer, liver and kidney ailments. The United Nations for a decade has pressed for research in) 1 development of amino acid fortification of foods. |