a well known researcher at New York University

她是纽约大学著名学者
who deals with food politics.

研究食品政治学
Michael Pollan, of course, and Walter Willet,

麦克·鲍兰当然还有沃文特·威利特
who's a very influential nutrition researcher

非常有影响力的营养学研究人员
and you've heard or read about some of his work in the class.

在课堂上你们也对他的成就有所耳闻
If you care to avail yourself of these resources, feel free to do it.

如果你希望取用这些资源悉听尊便
Today, I'd like to talk about

今天我们要讨论的
the government and its role in people's food choices.

是政府在人们选择食物时扮演的角色
Rogan Kersch, from the last class,

上次课的嘉宾罗根·科什
did a very nice job of introducing this topic.

在向公众普及这个问题上做了许多工作
We're going to talk more about specifics today,

我们今天会讨论更多相关的细节
but some of the broad issues that he outlined were very helpful.

但他所总结的一些宏观问题就很有启发