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Default Lettuce and water

Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 11/26/2018 1:56 PM, wrote:
>> On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 10:11:06 -0700, graham > wrote:
>>
>>> On 2018-11-26 9:21 a.m.,
wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 14:51:20 GMT, Pamela >
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 18:40 22 Nov 2018,
wrote in
>>>>> news >>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, 22 Nov 2018 graham wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> A US woman on the CBC this morning pointed out that bottled water is
>>>>>>> 96% water and 4% plastic. Lettuce is 96% water and 4% cellulose etc.
>>>>>>> Therefore, not only are square miles of good agricultural land being
>>>>>>> wasted but also all that fuel used to transport "water" across the
>>>>>>> country in refrigerated containers.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Do you know what else is 4% water and 4% cellulose... your pinhead.
>>>>>> Bottled water is bottled very local to where it's marketed, from
>>>>>> someone's hose bib... not transported more than perhaps fifty miles
>>>>>> and is NOT refrigersated.
>>>
>>> Why don't you try reading my original post when you are sober! Even
>>> someone with a low, double-digit IQ could see that it was referring to
>>> the transport of LETTUCE!!!!

>>
>> You wrote transport "water"... sober up!
>>

> Lettuce is mostly water. Made sense to me in the comparison of bottled
> water and packaging and the cellulose of lettuce holding 96% water.


The only real water is RO filtered.