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. 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. If our ancestors could time-travel to one location in the present, where would modernity astound them most?

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. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. 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.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. Instead, it’s hopeful and balanced and still manages to cover an impressive breadth of material without ever feeling overwhelming or preachy.

She covered UN climate change talks, GM foods and the badger cull during five years as the Environment Correspondent for The Daily Telegraph.

Avocado Anxiety encourages understanding the science behind one's food and demonstrates the global impact of every meal. When we come back to look at the early decades of the 21 st Century, the dish that will surely sum up our age is avocado on toast? Louise uses a series of stories and real-world examples to show just how complex even the foods we think of as 'simple' are.