Ruin Their Crops on the Ground The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch (Andrea Freeman) preserves a gathering space where ethnic

a gathering space where ethnic Mexican workers and customers connected with their patria chica (their “small country”)

and Lamb Meatballs with Orzo

including shrimp and crabs

and pickles and preserves

Ruin Their Crops on the Ground The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch (Andrea Freeman) preserves a gathering space where ethnicIn 1779, to subjugate Indigenous nations, George Washington ordered his troops to ruin their crops now in the ground and prevent their planting more. Destroying harvests is just one way that the United States has used food as a political tool. Trying to prevent enslaved people from rising up, enslavers restricted their consumption, providing only enough to fuel labor. Since the Great Depression, school lunches have served as dumping grounds for