> *He* didn't.  Don't you understand what research is?  He consulted the
> work of anthropologists who have done field studies

one thing you've missed in all this..why don't you take as a serious
testimony the words of someone who really should know..the aboriginal guide
who wrote the book from which i made the original reference [ie that plant
foods are relatively useless]?  perhaps testimony of a black man don't
count...

andrew