As I've said, I used to teach jungle survival.If you think you can go to the nature and simply eat most of the plants there, then this conversation has no meaning. Its just a vegan ideology. Cooking and soaking is exactly done for the reason to minimize the poisons in the few we can do that with.
Not even herbivores can eat many plants, every herbivore is specialized to eat only specific plants, because it needs a specifically designed body to deal with a specific plant toxicity. Different plants than they are evolved to eat make even herbivores sick. Not to say carnivores like humans.
It's a fact that most of the plants in the natural jungle will kill you. If you just start randomly plucking and chewing on leaves, stems, and berries, you won't make it through the first night. A few of them can be made edible with some manual processing, usually grinding and boiling.
OTOH, I also learned practically any animal's muscle flesh is edible, even long-term with just thorough cooking.
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