During our opening session here at the Alltech International Animal Health & Nutrition Symposium we just witnessed the presentation of Alltech’s 20th Medal of Excellence Award. Receiving the award is Dr. Jim Pettigrew, Univerity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
He’s pictured here with the two Dr. Lyons (Mark (left) and Pearse). Right now he’s speaking about world food hunger. I’m recording these opening session presentations and will post a few of them for you later this morning.
I’m posting an excerpt from Dr. Pettigrew’s comments after receiving his award this morning. His focus is on world hunger, its causes and solutions. At the end of his comments he says that “Perhaps one of the most powerful things we could do to encourage agricultural development in poor countries is to reform the agricultural subsidy programs in the United States, in Europe and other developed countries. The reason for that is that our subsidy programs so distort the price signals that should otherwise encourage and reward people for developing agriculture in the poor countries.”