A team of scientists observed that the diet of groups in certain the Chin States of Upper Burma was seriously deficient in animal protein. After considerable study a way was found to improve the situation by cross-breeding the small, local black pigs raised by the farmers with an improved strain to obtain progeny, giving a greater yield meat. The entire operation, however, completely failed to benefit the nutrition of the population because of one fact which had been viewed as irrelevant. The cross-bred pigs were spotted. And it was firmly believed as firmly as we believe that to eat, say, mice, would be disgusting--that spotted pigs were unfit to eat