{"id":6744,"date":"2015-08-23T13:30:15","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T20:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6744"},"modified":"2015-09-13T13:35:45","modified_gmt":"2015-09-13T20:35:45","slug":"suck-on-this-salad-eaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/08\/23\/suck-on-this-salad-eaters\/","title":{"rendered":"Suck on this, salad eaters."},"content":{"rendered":"

from The Washington Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Why salad is so overrated<\/h1>\n

By Tamar Haspel<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nMinus their greens, left to right: the Caesar Salad With Chicken from the Cheesecake Factory; the Quesadilla Explosion Salad from Chili\u2019s Grill & Bar; the Waldorf Salad from California Pizza Kitchen. (T.J. Kirkpatrick\/For The Washington Post)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u2019s some truth in the finger-pointing, but none of them is a clear-cut villain.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s salad, and here are three main reasons why we need to rethink it.<\/p>\n

Salad vegetables are pitifully low in nutrition.<\/b> The biggest thing wrong with salads is lettuce, and the biggest thing wrong with lettuce is that it\u2019s a leafy-green waste of resources.<\/p>\n

In July, when I wrote a piece defending corn<\/a> 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\u2019t 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\u2019s food is a job for crops like corn. But if you think nutrition is the most important metric, don\u2019t direct your ire at corn. Turn instead to lettuce.<\/p>\n

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from The Washington Post Why salad is so overrated By Tamar Haspel Minus their greens, left to right: the Caesar Salad With Chicken from the Cheesecake Factory; the Quesadilla Explosion Salad from Chili\u2019s Grill & Bar; the Waldorf Salad from California Pizza Kitchen. (T.J. Kirkpatrick\/For The Washington Post) As the world population grows, we have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}