Nothing tastes better on a hot summer day than a crisp, cool
salad. Before you toss up that salad, consider where the lettuce and other
fruits and vegetables on your summer plates come from. If it's like most conventional
produce in this country, it comes from an average of 1,500 miles away. 39% of
our fruits and 12% of our vegetables traveled from another country.1
Is the lettuce in that salad good for the environment? We compare three heads
of lettuce: one grown conventionally in California (where more than half of
