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Article: Africa needs lifesaving high-lysine corn.
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- The Saturday Evening Post
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- March 1, 1985
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AFRICA NEEDS LIFESAVING HIGH-LYSINE CORN
If it hadn't been for Dr. Edwin Mertz' high-lysine corn, I would not have gone to Ethiopia. I tried to persuade Dr. Mertz, the Purdue University professor who developed high-lysine corn, to go, but he declined reluctantly, although he assured me the trip was necessary. "Those children need far more protein than the adults do to survive,' he said. "We should send high-lysine corn and earmark it for the children only.' Adults can survive on regular corn.
That's way I wanted to go to Ethiopia--because I wanted to see the children with kwashiorkor and then see if the disease could be prevented by providing the ...