Milk aid for malnutrition

Press, 21 October 1980, Page 12

Milk aid for malnutrition

The Governments of Australia and New Zealand, the most economical milk producers, are not providing enough . aid to needy countries, according to a visiting British expert on malnutrition in ; the Third World. Mr S.- F.- Barnes wants to influence people to influence the two Governments to do more. To do this he is promoting his book, "200 Million Hungry Children,” which was recently released. Mr Barnes is a strong advocate of milk, which he .be-

lieves is essential to infants and nursing or pregnant mothers. Fifteen million children were dying in Asia because they were not getting the protein that milk, or other substances, could provide.

A “two-pronted attack” was needed to fight malnutrition, so that it would remain effective for several years.- This consisted of discovering how various countries could help by using milk, and by assisting production in other fields^. People in New Zealand did

not care enough; but he travelled round the world in his retirement, researching support/against malnutrition, because "! care enough to do something about it.’’ Born in ' England, ,;Mc Barnes moved to Australia after World War 11. He has spent more than 40 years in the dairy and food .. industries, half of them in under-developed countries.

Mr Barries was awarded the M.B.E. for his services to the dairy industry ;in South-East Asia. ■