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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 2098" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/04/food-law-and-policy-clinic-steps-up-efforts-during-pandemic/" target="_blank"><strong>Waste not, want not - Harard Gazette</strong></a></p><p></p><p><strong>Law School's Food Law and Policy Clinic steps up its efforts in time of pandemic</strong></p><p></p><p>During a pandemic, a lot of things come to a halt, but one thing that never ceases is our need for a reliable supply of safe, nutritious food. Harvard Law School Professor <a href="https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/11185/BroadLeib" target="_blank">Emily Broad Leib</a>, J.D. ’08, director of the HLS <a href="https://www.chlpi.org/food-law-and-policy/about/" target="_blank">Food Law and Policy Clinic</a> (FLPC), and her students have been working furiously to ensure that the most vulnerable — and ultimately the rest of us — are fed.</p><p></p><p>Broad Leib and the clinic have long been a resource for food producers, food-focused nonprofits, government agencies, legislators, policy experts, and other food system stakeholders. But since early March, as the COVID-19 crisis has grown, she and a team of students and clinic staff have worked around the clock, writing briefs aimed at saving tons of food that could feed the hungry, and working to inform the response to COVID-19, including legislation that Congress has been hammering out.</p><p></p><p>According to Feeding America, a national network of food banks, one in seven Americans relied on food banks to get enough to eat before the pandemic. The clinic is a national leader in policy efforts to prevent food waste and promote food recovery, which it undertakes by partnering to provide legal and policy support to a range of programs that pick up excess food from universities, restaurants, and other organizations and get it to food banks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 2098, member: 1"] [URL='https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/04/food-law-and-policy-clinic-steps-up-efforts-during-pandemic/'][B]Waste not, want not - Harard Gazette[/B][/URL] [B]Law School's Food Law and Policy Clinic steps up its efforts in time of pandemic[/B] During a pandemic, a lot of things come to a halt, but one thing that never ceases is our need for a reliable supply of safe, nutritious food. Harvard Law School Professor [URL='https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/11185/BroadLeib']Emily Broad Leib[/URL], J.D. ’08, director of the HLS [URL='https://www.chlpi.org/food-law-and-policy/about/']Food Law and Policy Clinic[/URL] (FLPC), and her students have been working furiously to ensure that the most vulnerable — and ultimately the rest of us — are fed. Broad Leib and the clinic have long been a resource for food producers, food-focused nonprofits, government agencies, legislators, policy experts, and other food system stakeholders. But since early March, as the COVID-19 crisis has grown, she and a team of students and clinic staff have worked around the clock, writing briefs aimed at saving tons of food that could feed the hungry, and working to inform the response to COVID-19, including legislation that Congress has been hammering out. According to Feeding America, a national network of food banks, one in seven Americans relied on food banks to get enough to eat before the pandemic. The clinic is a national leader in policy efforts to prevent food waste and promote food recovery, which it undertakes by partnering to provide legal and policy support to a range of programs that pick up excess food from universities, restaurants, and other organizations and get it to food banks. [/QUOTE]
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