Ruin Their Crops on the Ground The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch Deidra Duncan Sometimes we call it intimate

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Ruin Their Crops on the Ground The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch Deidra Duncan Sometimes we call it intimateBy: Andrea Freeman Published by Henry Holt and Company, 2025 07 08 Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History Winner of the James Beard Media Award in Food Issues and Advocacy The first and definitive history of the use of food in United States law and politics as a weapon of conquest and control, a Fast Food Nation for the Black Lives Matter era In 1779, to subjugate Indigenous nations, George Washington ordered his troops to ruin their