If you like a good salad – you know, the kind with lettuce – then be prepared to face the scorn of the enviro-foodie elitists. Tamar Haspel, a self-described “ex-urban journalist now farming oysters” on that vast farm belt known as Cape Cod, writes in the Washington Post that salad, and especially its main ingredient, lettuce, “has almost nothing going for it.”
Lettuce (like every food God provides) requires water to be grown. Ms. Haspel seems alarmed by this fact.
Ms. Haspel is the latest among many foodie elites who have indicted fresh produce foods for their “water footprints.” First they came after the almonds (which are, by the way, packed with proteins and nutrients), and now they’re coming after lettuce.
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