Jill Richardson Talk September 5, 2009

Jill Richardson will talk about the issues explored in her book 'Recipe for America: Why Our Food System is Broken and What We Can Do to Fix It'. America’s food system is dominated by agribusiness and corporate farms, whose destructive practices pollute the environment, are cruel to animals, and offer us unhealthy food choices. In Recipe for America, food activist Jill Richardson shows how sustainable agriculture—where local farms raise food that is healthy for consumers and animals and does not damage the environment—offers the only solution to America’s food crisis. In addition to highlighting the harmful conditions at factory farms, this timely and necessary book details the rising grassroots food movement, which is creating an agricultural system that allows people to eat sustainably, locally, and seasonally.

Jill Richardson blogs about food issues at both Daily Kos and on her own blog La Vida Locavore. She is a member of the policy advisory board of the Organic Consumers Association and a Commonweal Institute fellow. Recipe for America is her first book.

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