ABSTRACT
In developing countries particularly, there is competition between man and other domestic animals for conventional food, leading to malnutrition for all. If regular cereals and legumes consumed by man are replaced partly by other food items in the diet of chicken, cattle, pig, etc. (Punj, 1988), it will release pressure on the food directly as well as indirectly. If there is less consumption of cereals by animals, more food will be available to the human population, and man will be saving cereals/legumes by eating a nonvegetarian diet.
