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

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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. So much of the modern world would be incomprehensible to medieval peasants, but not the rows of glossy vegetables in our supermarket aisles. Avocado Anxiety encourages understanding the science behind one's food and demonstrates the global impact of every meal.

This isn't pro or anti industry/meat/veggie etc, it simply gives a balanced view of the 'grey' area that most food issues come with. By turns fascinating, moving and funny, Louise Gray gives readers the knowledge they need to make more informed choices about what to eat. A portrait of a food system that has become miraculously proficient at giving us cheap produce whenever we want it but at the expense of so much else.In an effort to make sense of the complex food system we are all part of, Louise Gray decides to track the stories of our five-a-day, from farm to fruit bowl, and discover the impact that growing fruits and vegetables has on the planet. 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. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. 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.

She covered UN climate change talks, GM foods and the badger cull during five years as the Environment Correspondent for The Daily Telegraph . Have you ever wondered who picked your Fairtrade banana or how far your green beans travelled to reach your plate? Instead, it’s hopeful and balanced and still manages to cover an impressive breadth of material without ever feeling overwhelming or preachy. 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.I believe that by making the consumer aware we can drive those in power to take seriously the role of food in making our population healthier and our environment more resilient. Gray, a journalist who specializes in food and environmental issues, is not afraid to get her hands dirty.

I think instead we could be educating ourselves about the delicious alternatives and the small ways we can make the food system better.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.