Harvard Food Law Society

New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed science writer Gary Taubes delivered a lecture on March 30, “Why We Get Fat: Adiposity 101 and the Alternative Hypothesis of Obesity,” as part of a series of events sponsored by Harvard Law School’s Food Law Society.

Presenting findings from his fourth book, "Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It" (December 2010), Taubes said he wrote to the book to “convince public health authorities that they should rethink everything they know…about obesity and chronic disease.”

A link to a video of the event can be found below the fold.

"Recently, there are additional new opportunities at Harvard to explore food policy issues. In 2010, law students formed the Harvard Food Law Society, and in a less than a year developed a membership of 150 students.  That same year, Harvard Senior Clinical Fellow, Emily Broad began work on a new Food Policy Initiative."

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Earlier this summer, President Obama nominated Ramona Romero to serve as USDA General Counsel. A classmate of Michelle Obama (HLS '88), Romero is a past president of the Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA) and as Corporate Counsel for Dupont currently works with "business teams involved in transactional and logistical issues affecting domestic and international shipments valued in multimillion dollar terms," according to an HNBA press release.

Her nomination has not been without controversy. Writing in the Huffington Post, the Director of the Organic Consumers Association claims that the Romero nomination is more evidence that President Obama has "taken his team of food and farming leaders directly from the biotech companies and their lobbying, research, and philanthropic arms."