Lettuce v Bacon

…A diet based on vegetables and fruit may be more beneficial to the human body, but professor Paul Fischbeck said: "Lots of common vegetables require more resources per calorie than you would think. Eggplant, celery and cucumbers look particularly bad when compared to pork or chicken.

"Eating lettuce is over three times worse in greenhouse gas emissions than eating bacon."…

Celery and lettuce are nothing, like cellulose and water, but without cucumbers, we couldn't have pickles.