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 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.

So much of the modern world would be incomprehensible to medieval peasants, but not the rows of glossy vegetables in our supermarket aisles. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.Avocado Anxiety encourages understanding the science behind one’s food and demonstrates the global impact of every meal. Horticulturalists are learning how to make space for nature by growing crops such as lettuce on vertical farms indoors, and leaving wild land for birds and other wildlife.

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. 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. Louise uses a series of stories and real-world examples to show just how complex even the foods we think of as 'simple' are. In recent years, she has written for The Sunday Times, Scottish Field, the Guardian and The Spectator, among others.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. I think instead we could be educating ourselves about the delicious alternatives and the small ways we can make the food system better.

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. I can’t completely take away avocado anxiety – I’m not sure I want to, it is a product of living in our age.

Have you ever wondered who picked your Fairtrade banana or how far your green beans travelled to reach your plate? 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. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.