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Confessions of an avocado eater

Avocado Anxiety

Louise Gray (Bloomsbury, £17.99)

FOR her first, highly readable book, The Ethical Carnivore, Louise Gray spent a year eating only meat that she had killed or seen killed. She still eats meat, although rather less of it, and now, as the descendant of an Edinburgh grocer, has turned her journalistic focus to the ethics of fruit and veg consumption and the guilt we should—or shouldn’t —feel about their production.

She has assembled a blizzard of information, some of which is

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