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

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Very enjoyable and well narrated read/listen covering a lot of stuff we should all be trying to learn more about.

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. 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. 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. In recent years she has written for The Sunday Times, Scottish Field, The Guardian and The Spectator, among others. 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.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. The UK’s most popular fruit is so cheap because it relies on a monoculture built on cheap labour and the clearing of rainforests. In recent years, she has written for The Sunday Times , Scottish Field , the Guardian and The Spectator , among others. She covered UN climate change talks, GM foods and the badger cull during five years as the Environment Correspondent for The Daily Telegraph. Essential reading for anyone that eats, Avocado Anxiety takes you on a journey through food and its impact on our planet.

A fascinating book full of surprising facts that will force you to reconsider everything you thought you knew about fruit and vegetables. In recent years, she has written for The Sunday Times, Scottish Field, the Guardian and The Spectator, among others. 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. Above all, how do we stop worrying about our food choices and start making decisions that make a difference? Potato farmers are learning how to look after the soil better, largely from watching the organic movement.Avocado Anxiety encourages understanding the science behind one’s food and demonstrates the global impact of every meal. So much of the modern world would be incomprehensible to medieval peasants, but not the rows of glossy vegetables in our supermarket aisles. As consumers we can cut food waste by eating our leftovers and embracing the wonky carrot, we can eat plant proteins like broad beans and grow our own courgettes. 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.

All that unblemished produce would immediately speak to them of a society that had solved the problem of how to feed itself; a society that did not require the majority of people to strain their backs coaxing calories out of the ground. 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.If our ancestors could time-travel to one location in the present, where would modernity astound them most? I think instead we could be educating ourselves about the delicious alternatives and the small ways we can make the food system better. A vegan diet generally has a lower carbon footprint, unless you are living off exotic fruits and vegetables flown in from abroad.

Generally, fruit and vegetables have a lower carbon footprint because it takes a lot less energy to grow a plant than to raise an animal. When the water is coming from places suffering water shortages such as parts of Spain and South America this can cause droughts, harming local populations and wildlife. 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.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. Avocado Anxiety encourages understanding the science behind one's food and demonstrates the global impact of every meal.