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Forum 8: Nutrition Conference: Forum 8: Nutrition
Animal Nutrition: New Challanges and New Concepts Josef Kamphues, School of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Germany Gerhard Flachowsky, Federal Agricultural Research Centre, Braunschweig, Germany The foundation of all food production from livestock sources is the sufficient amount and quality of feed. Because in the future there will be increased competition between man and animals for the same nutrition sources (e.g. cereals), increased production of human food from animal sources will only be possible through the exploitation of new sources for basic feed. Both the opportunities identifiable here and the dangers involved make an international exchange of knowledge essential. The globalisation of the feed market contains both opportunities and risks. The range of unwanted materials in such feed (e.g. mycotoxin contaminants) is as "international" as the feed trade itself, and the possible inclusion of such contaminants in the food-chain (feed - animal � human food) demands consumer-protection concepts for avoidance and removal, as well as monitoring programs. Where the target is increased livestock performance, conflicts of interest arise increasingly from the necessary parallel consideration and satisfaction of species-specific requirements. In the pet food sector, competition for high-value feedstuffs (e.g. expensive products for carnivores) is a problem. Ethically acceptable concepts must be developed for fulfilling the nutritional needs of animals under human protection while avoiding the risks of over or under feeding. Goals of the scientific discourse
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