Posted on 08/26/2015 6:10:30 AM PDT by rickmichaels
As the world population grows, we have a pressing need to eat better and farm better, and those of us trying to figure out how to do those things have pointed at lots of different foods as problematic. Almonds, for their water use. Corn, for the monoculture. Beef, for its greenhouse gases. In each of those cases, there’s some truth in the finger-pointing, but none of them is a clear-cut villain.
There’s one food, though, that has almost nothing going for it. It occupies precious crop acreage, requires fossil fuels to be shipped, refrigerated, around the world, and adds nothing but crunch to the plate.
It’s salad, and here are three main reasons why we need to rethink it.
Salad vegetables are pitifully low in nutrition. The biggest thing wrong with salads is lettuce, and the biggest thing wrong with lettuce is that it’s a leafy-green waste of resources.
In July, when I wrote a piece defending corn on the calories-per-acre metric, a number of people wrote to tell me I was ignoring nutrition. Which I was. Not because nutrition isn’t important, but because we get all the nutrition we need in a fraction of our recommended daily calories, and filling in the rest of the day’s food is a job for crops like corn. But if you think nutrition is the most important metric, don’t direct your ire at corn. Turn instead to lettuce.
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Get plenty of minerals there,
Scarier is NASA talk of recycling poop into food. Wonder whose great idea that was.
“It occupies precious crop acreage...”, nonsense. First, crop acreage isn't precious. Second, crops like lettuce produce multiple harvests off of the same acreage every year, unlike corn and wheat.
There is a good argument that it isn't nutritionally efficient, but I don't care, and nutritional efficiency isn't exactly an American problem. Eat what you want, grow what the market demands.
We can help the environment by eating and recycling Tamar.
If you are a real man or woman, the cows eat the salad and we eat the cows.
Your salad is very fresh.
I like mine with a few aged rusted screws. For variety I add eye screws.
“Hurting the planet” is like “It’s for the children.” when you hear it, you know the lying is about to start.”
Don’t forget “We’re from the government & we’re here to help.”
And, “Nobody’s coming to take away your guns!”
Liberalism IS a mental disorder.
Hail Caesar.
that was good!
I avoid soy because it is too much like estrogen.
Food Fascism by a Partisan Media Shill in the Washington Compost.
Eating meat hurts the planet.
Eating salads hurts the planet.
Eating hurts the planet.
Die and make a food Nazi ecomaniac happy.
Iceburg lettuce has water soluble fiber. But there are much better lettucess like romaine. But I try mixex greens with spinach, radicchio, arugula, cucumbers, avocado, radishes and it is a very real salad full of nutrients and phytochemicals.
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