Alan Titchmarsh says he avoids avocados because of climate impact

TV gardener points to shipping footprint and rainforest destruction, saying he also finds the fruit insipid'

The TV gardener Alan Titchmarsh has said he refuses to eat avocados for breakfast because of their enormous carbon footprint" and much prefers Shreddies.

Writing in Gardeners' World magazine, Titchmarsh said he could not bear the idea of forcing" down the insipid" fruit first thing in the morning, before suggesting that he believed it should be boycotted on environmental grounds.