Like everyone, Schmid ignores what is inconsistent with his ideas, eh? And he finds some inconsistancies in others' ideas. I love it; such stuff makes the world go round. And for a summary of Price's work and the other side of the vegetarian story it is a must read, I agree. I hear that Schmid's own diet is 50% veggies and 50% seafood (mostly raw) and that he eats seafood 3 times a day. Pretty interesting. I may have to give that a go somewhere down the line and see if life without fruit is worth living ;) BTW, I just found a source of fresh sardines, a fish we've never had before. They are among the fattiest fish (EPA, DHA, omega-3, lipase, etc etc) which are low on the food chain (plant eaters), and I've always thought they must be less polluted than mackeral (fish eaters). We are both stunned by their attractiveness. Since they are small, filleting doesn't work very well, so I'm just gutting and beheading them. I thought I'd just end up scraping the flesh of the bone and eating it from there, but Melisa and I both love the bones as well! Talk about calcium; grams, not milligrams. Excellent feeling of well-being and contentment for hours after eating. And we now consider them hallucinagenic as well, but you have to wait till you go to sleep to dream dream dream like never before.:) Ah, fish, the brain food... I just put them on a mesh screen in front of a fan and they ripen beautifully. (Peter or Ward or whomever, when you want to take the plunge make a visit, or hell, I'll overnight mail you some! :)) Cheers, Kirt