UN General Assembly
1968

51. The specialized agencies have co-operated in setting up expert groups, and the results of the studies by the Advisory Committee on the application of science and technology to development, which are to be found in the latest publication by the United Nations, Feeding the Expanding World Population: International Action to Avert the Impending Protein Crisis, are truly frightening. The fact that there are over 300 million children in the developing world today who, for lack of sufficient protein, suffer retarded physical growth and mental development underlines the urgency of the problem, which, in terms of population control, is far from being tractable.