Morgan writes that in many cultures, fish have traditionally been used to supplement 
protein, and that meat is overwhelmingly preferred.  This reminds me of Louisa Waugh's 
excellent memoir, Hearing Birds Fly, which chronicles a year she spent in an impoverished 
village in Western Mongolia (Tuvans and Kazakhs were the two main cultural groups in the 
village). Waugh discovered that these villagers would sooner starve (and some of them did) 
than eat the fish from the river in the village (no indication whatsoever, by the way, that 
any sort of pollution or contamination played a part -- this area is remote and 
mountainous).  They overwhelmingly preferred goat meat, and once the school cook gave 
Waugh a prime cut of beef because no one in the community would eat that either.

Just one data point that indicates that we cannot extrapolate what people eat based on 
where they live. 

Kerry Ose

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