Jill Richardson

Jill Richardson writes about food, agriculture, the environment and health. She is the author of the book “Recipe for America: Why Our Food System is Broken and What We Can Do to Fix It.” Richardson is the founder of the blog La Vida Locavore and a member of the Organic Consumers Association policy advisory board.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Jill Richardson

Opinion

Republicans’ cynical red-baiting culture war on ‘Critical Race Theory’
July 15, 2021 By Jill Richardson
One conservative activist is weaponizing resentment over diversity trainings into an all-out, red-baiting culture war.
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Opinion

30 years of the Americans with Disabilities Act—moving beyond accommodation
July 30, 2020 By Jill Richardson
We need a system where people with disabilities are universally included by design—not “accommodation.”
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Opinion

The worst possible person to put in charge of coronavirus response: Mike Pence
March 4, 2020 By Jill Richardson
The Trump administration seems to be dealing with COVID-19 more as a PR issue than a public health one.
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Environment

ExxonMobil knew about climate change in 1982 but lied about it
May 21, 2019 By Jill Richardson
Fossil fuel executives knew they were trading a few decades of profits for the entire future of the planet.
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Opinion

Starbucks 2020—Another billionaire presidential candidate who doesn’t get it
January 31, 2019 By Jill Richardson
We need a government that understands the lives and struggles of the majority of Americans. Howard Schultz won’t.
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Politics

The cruelty of the Republicans’ Kavanaugh charade
September 27, 2018 By Jill Richardson
When I hear people shouting on TV that an assault in one's teens doesn't matter, it feels like they're shouting at me, too.
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Opinion

Why women don’t report sexual assault
September 25, 2018 By Jill Richardson
When a victim of sexual crimes comes forward, even if it’s decades after the crime took place, we shouldn’t use her past silence against her as “evidence” to discredit her.
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Opinion

Want to attract women? Try not hating us.
May 23, 2018 By Jill Richardson
The view of women espoused by incels assumes we do everything with reference to men. We exist for men. I don’t know even a single woman that would describe herself in that way.
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