This book avoids the doom and gloom that often comes with discussions around complex problems with our food system. 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.

Avocado Anxiety encourages understanding the science behind one’s food and demonstrates the global impact of every meal. If our ancestors could time-travel to one location in the present, where would modernity astound them most? To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.Essential reading for anyone that eats, Avocado Anxiety takes you on a journey through food and its impact on our planet. Louise uses a series of stories and real-world examples to show just how complex even the foods we think of as 'simple' are.

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. In recent years, she has written for The Sunday Times, Scottish Field, the Guardian and The Spectator, among others. 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. Very enjoyable and well narrated read/listen covering a lot of stuff we should all be trying to learn more about.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. 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. In recent years she has written for The Sunday Times, Scottish Field, The Guardian and The Spectator, among others. I think instead we could be educating ourselves about the delicious alternatives and the small ways we can make the food system better.

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. Established in 2009, Tippermuir seeks to add to the cultural life of Scotland by publishing interesting and worthy books in English and Scots. By turns fascinating, moving and funny, Louise Gray gives readers the knowledge they need to make more informed choices about what to eat. 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. Avocado Anxiety encourages understanding the science behind one's food and demonstrates the global impact of every meal.