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I want to introduce you to my badass friends. Meet Thelma and Louise.
我想向你介紹我的朋友們。西爾瑪和路易斯。
I'm passionate about cows.
我對奶牛充滿了熱情。
And although they've been getting a lot of crap lately due to methane emissions and climate change,
雖然它們最近因為甲烷排放和氣候變化引發了很多非議，
I hope that I can redeem their reputation in part
但我希望恢復它們的部分聲譽，
by showing you how incredibly important they are in solving one of the world's biggest problems: food security.
通過展示它們在解決世界上最大的問題之一，即糧食安全問題。
But more importantly, for Africa -- it's resultant childhood stunting.
但更重要的是，在非洲--糧食安全造成了兒童發育遲緩。
Nutritional stunting manifests itself in a reduction of growth rate in human development.
營養失調表現為人類成長過程中生長速度的降低。
And according to UNICEF, stunting doesn't come easy. It doesn't come quickly.
按照聯合國兒童基金會的說法，生長遲緩不會輕易發生。它也不會馬上發生。
It happens over a long period of time during which a child endures painful and debilitating cycles of illness,
它會在很長一段時間內發生，比如當小孩遭受痛苦或者處于虛弱的疾病周期內、
depressed appetite, insufficient nutrition and inadequate care.
食欲減退、營養不足、還有關愛不足。
And most kids simply can't endure such rigors.
大部分兒童無法通過這樣的嚴酷考驗。
But those that do survive, they carry forward long-term cognitive problems as well as losses of stature.
那些存活下來的孩子，他們也會帶著長期的認知問題，還有身體發育不良。
The numbers of stunted children under the age of five, in most regions of the world, has been declining.
在世界上絕大部分地區，五歲以下存在發育遲緩的兒童數量已經在減少。
And I really hate to say this, but the only place where they haven't been declining is here, in Africa.
我很不想這樣說，但唯一人數沒有減少的地方，就是這里，非洲。
Here, 59 million children, three in 10 in that age group,
在這里，五千九百萬的兒童中，十分之三的這個年齡段的人，
struggle to meet their genetic potential -- their full genetic potential.
難以達到他們的基因潛力--他們完整的基因潛力。
