The Biology of Some Food Organisms

Abstract

Man’s ability to feed himself determines his survival. The ability of groups of people to form a viable community depends on their collective ability to provide food for themselves. The growth of civilizations depends primarily on their food supplies. So irrespective of level of social organization, survival of the human race is absolutely dependent on a continuing supply of food organisms. But what organisms? Of all of the hundreds of thousands of species of biological organisms on the earth relatively few are consumed by man and still fewer make up the major portion of his present-day food supply.