Leland and Gray High School - Messenger Yearbook (Townshend, VT)

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' ' Page THE BANISHMENT OF WORLD HUNGER CONT'D piling up in the West Indies and the naeivis were in great need of more protein in their diets The new torula yeast which contains more than forty per cent protein was the answero It sparked the construction of the Jamaican factory which is now producing high-protein food yeast for human consumption at a rate of five tons a day, This factory doesn't have much difficulty in ' selling its output for human consumption., The natives are eating it in porridgelg fish cakes and flapjackso It won't be possible to duplicate the texture of unground meats with the proteins produced by yeasto These must still be pro- duced by the soilbound plants and animalso But ice creamy weiners and sausages, processed cheeses, milk and cream substitutes, breakfast cereals and dehydrated canned soups can be made without difficultys Now the question arisesg can this food be bought within reach of the poverty- stricken millions who don't get enough to eat? Certainly thefworlE.can't afford not to feed its hungry millions now that a way to feed them has been foundo Ther cases give the indication of being as low as ordinary food Nbut depend largely upon the success of the engineers, ' ' The advancement in this food production has been made possible by the-study of one-celled plants which grow in rthe water instead, of the soils It climaxes a struggle science has been carrying on for a century to find ways of producing food,beyond the limits of the soils For a time it was hoped that food pills could be

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:age io . ' SALUTATORY Honorable board of trustees, members of the faculty, parents, schoolmates, and friends: In behalf of the class of l949,' I am happy to wel- come you to our graduation exercises. Our class wishes to express our thanks to you- for the help and encourage- ment given us during the past four years and.we sincerely hope you will enjoy the program. l THE Bmismmur or wonm HUNGER r One of the wor1d's greatest problems is hunger. If everybody had enough to eat most of the troubles of the world could be solved. Experts in th1s'f1eld have warned that there is not enough land on earth to raise the food humans need. There is too little to eat for the numbers of people and half of the world's population is underfed. A fifth of the people live on the brink of hunger. Less than a third .get the .calories required lto keep them healthy.. . A H , 'we face the problem of how to produce more food from the amount of soil we haves, Already the burden that millions load on the soil is destroying the lands Double the present soil, production' would be required to'bring all the people of the world up to the eating standards of the well-fed nationso So'why not use the water to proe duce food? I I I The knowledge of science has now come to our aid and has found a way to produce. food without the aid of soil. Many experiments are under way land the most recently publicized one is in Jamaica, west Indies, where one fac- tory has turned crude molasses into food yeast which people are eating, There was a surplus of molasses

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Page 20 THE BANISHMENT OF WORLD HUNGER CONT'D manufactured. This has been tried, and some V ordinary soil plants have been grown in chemically treated watert The costs of these Whydroponicn foods proved toov high to make them generally valuable. V There also has been a careful investigation of more food from the ocean but no real hope has been offered from this source. A Since prehistoric times men have depended upon grain and animals which feed upon, grain for their food supply. Both depended upon the soils Recently a new food-producing team that thrives 'in llquid pastures without the aid of soil has been discovered. The newt Ngrainn is Chlorella, a green alga or single-celled plant. Fed with common minerals and gas, many times as much basic food can be grown in an acre of shallow pond as on an acre of our best soil. r ' The yeast ee11 is the other member of the new food team. This team works together much as grain and hog have worked for centuries but without the use of soil. If the earth's present two billions were given an equalized right to eat, there would be less than one acre'of productive land to grow the food each needs. This shows how much mankind has outgrown' the corn-hog team of food production. 4 The Japanese farmer is very skillful and the production per acre is as high in Japan as anywhere in the world, but population of Japan has increased and only fourefifths of the food needed to feed its people