Harvard Food Law Society

Robert Lustig opened the Food Law Society's Harvard Forum on Food Policy on October 20th with his lecture, "The Sugar Epidemic: Policy vs. Politics." Recently featured in The New York Times Magazine, Dr. Lustig has become a leading pubic health authority on the impact sugar has on fueling the diabetes, obesity and metabolic syndrome epidemics, and on addressing changes in the food environment to reverse these chronic diseases.

Please continue below the fold for an abstract of his talk.

The Food Law Society hosted a talk by Barry Estabrook on September 22 in which he discussed his recently published book, Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit. As noted by Rachel Greenberger's coverage of the talk, Estabrook "immediately honed in on justice," arguing that the Florida winter tomato is the poster child for many problems of large scale farming. As revealed in his writing, workers in the industry are routinely sprayed with pesticides, paid below minimum wages, and are often victims of slavery and indentured servitude.