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

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. A vegan diet generally has a lower carbon footprint, unless you are living off exotic fruits and vegetables flown in from abroad. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. 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 recent years she has written for The Sunday Times, Scottish Field, The Guardian and The Spectator, among others. 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. A fascinating book full of surprising facts that will force you to reconsider everything you thought you knew about fruit and vegetables. The UK’s most popular fruit is so cheap because it relies on a monoculture built on cheap labour and the clearing of rainforests. Instead, it’s hopeful and balanced and still manages to cover an impressive breadth of material without ever feeling overwhelming or preachy.

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.

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. By turns fascinating, moving and funny, Louise Gray gives readers the knowledge they need to make more informed choices about what to eat. I can’t completely take away avocado anxiety – I’m not sure I want to, it is a product of living in our age. Through visits to farms, interviews with scientists and trying to grow her own, she digs up the dirt behind organic potatoes, greenhouse tomatoes and a glut of courgettes.

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 a quietly confident manner, Avocado Anxiety makes you think for yourself on matters that can only be described as universally urgent.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. Louise uses a series of stories and real-world examples to show just how complex even the foods we think of as 'simple' are.