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.

She has since followed that up with The Cauldron of Life, The Sword of Light, and The Spear of Truth. In a quietly confident manner, Avocado Anxiety makes you think for yourself on matters that can only be described as universally urgent. Very enjoyable and well narrated read/listen covering a lot of stuff we should all be trying to learn more about. 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.

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. 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.

In recent years, she has written for The Sunday Times, Scottish Field, the Guardian and The Spectator, among others. Picked by The Times as one of its environment books of the year, journalist Louise Gray tracks the story of our food from farm to fruit bowl, asking what impact our voracious appetites have on the planet. In recent years she has written for The Sunday Times, Scottish Field, The Guardian and The Spectator, among others. Have you ever wondered who picked your Fairtrade banana or how far your green beans travelled to reach your plate?She covered UN climate change talks, GM foods and the badger cull during five years as the Environment Correspondent for The Daily Telegraph. In recent years, she has written for The Sunday Times , Scottish Field , the Guardian and The Spectator , among others. Trying to make sense of it, environmental journalist Louise Gray tracks the stories of our five-a-day, from farm to fruit bowl, and discovers the impact that growing fruits and vegetables has on the planet.

A fascinating book full of surprising facts that will force you to reconsider everything you thought you knew about fruit and vegetables. Potato farmers are learning how to look after the soil better, largely from watching the organic movement. A vegan diet generally has a lower carbon footprint, unless you are living off exotic fruits and vegetables flown in from abroad. Born in the Shetlands in 1978, he studied History and Philosophy of Law at the University of Edinburgh, winning the Lord President Cooper Memorial Prize.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. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. By turns fascinating, moving and funny, Louise Gray gives readers the knowledge they need to make more informed choices about what to eat. This book avoids the doom and gloom that often comes with discussions around complex problems with our food system. 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.

Instead, it’s hopeful and balanced and still manages to cover an impressive breadth of material without ever feeling overwhelming or preachy. 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. Avocado Anxiety encourages understanding the science behind one's food and demonstrates the global impact of every meal.In one meme it was claimed eating avocado on toast rather than saving money for a house, was preventing young people getting on the property ladder.