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Avocado Anxiety: and Other Stories About Where Your Food Comes From

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By turns fascinating, moving and funny, Louise Gray gives readers the knowledge they need to make more informed choices about what to eat.

A fascinating book full of surprising facts that will force you to reconsider everything you thought you knew about fruit and vegetables. Have you ever wondered who picked your Fairtrade banana or how far your green beans travelled to reach your plate? I can’t completely take away avocado anxiety – I’m not sure I want to, it is a product of living in our age. She covered UN climate change talks, GM foods and the badger cull during five years as the Environment Correspondent for The Daily Telegraph .As a nation we do not eat enough fruit and veg (only a third of adults eat the recommended five-a-day), we need to start filling our plates with vegetables from farmers and growers we trust. Horticulturalists are learning how to make space for nature by growing crops such as lettuce on vertical farms indoors, and leaving wild land for birds and other wildlife. Avocados may not have a heavy carbon footprint but they use up a lot of water, around 85 litres to grow an avocado from Peru. The UK’s most popular fruit is so cheap because it relies on a monoculture built on cheap labour and the clearing of rainforests. As pressure grows via social media to post pictures of food that ticks all the boxes in terms of health and the environment, these food stories from the author of the award-winning The Ethical Carnivore are also a personal story of motherhood and the realisation that nothing is ever perfect.

She covered UN climate change talks, GM foods and the badger cull during five years as the Environment Correspondent for The Daily Telegraph. As pressure grows to share our healthy, environmentally friendly lives on social media, Avocado Anxiety is also a personal story of motherhood and the realisation that nothing is ever perfect. For her second book Avocado Anxiety And Other Stories About Where Your Food Comes From, the author explores the role of fruit and vegetables in shaping our environment. In a quietly confident manner, Avocado Anxiety makes you think for yourself on matters that can only be described as universally urgent.This book avoids the doom and gloom that often comes with discussions around complex problems with our food system. However, if the vegetables have been flown in by air freight, such as asparagus from Peru (18kg CO2e per kg), it can be up there with steak. Louise is passionate about environmental issues, increasingly focusing on how individuals can make a difference through the choices they make, such as the food we eat. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

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