At 04:00 PM 4/24/2002 -0500, you wrote: >I was recently talking to some people who spoke of a vegetarian diet where >they only ate food once it had naturally fallen from the tree, vine or plant >due to weight and gravity, i.e. no picking of fruit or vegetables. They >called these fruits and vegetables "drops." I've been trying to locate a >moa scientific or proper name for such a lifestyle, or more specifically a >more scientific name for "drops." I am a fiction writer and plan to use >this information for a story I am working on. If you can help me answer >this question I would greatly appreciate it. Just a hunch - but you might look into "anopsology" information. That is simplistically instinctive eating of foods that have not been processed in any way - such as a fruit dropping to the ground or plant that sprouts into a vegetable. But there is room for picking a fruit that is ripe in that concept. And also room for eating of meat of fallen animals, I believe. Instinctos are people who eat instinctively foods that have not been processed. Good luck in the search. -=mark=-