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What’s Cooking: Should the Government Regulate What We Eat?

October 21, 2015

Leading health policy expert Ezekiel Emanuel and Jacob E. Gersen, the Founder and Director of the Food Law Lab at Harvard Law School, discuss the intersection of food, regulation and how the U.S. government influences the food we eat. Michael J. Gerhardt, professor of constitutional law at the University of North Carolina School of Law and the National Constitution Center’s scholar-in-residence, moderates.

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