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  title info:
    title: Ruin their crops on the ground
    sub title: the politics of food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to school lunch
  name:
    name part: Freeman, Andrea
    name part: (Associate Professor of Law)
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 254 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: The first and definitive history of the use of food in American law and politics as a weapon of conquest and control, a Fast Food Nation for the Black Lives Matter era. In 1789, to subjugate Indigenous tribes, George Washington ordered his troops to 'ruin their crops on the ground and prevent them planting more.' Destroying the sources of food is just one way that the United States has used nourishment as a political tool. To prevent enslaved people from or escaping or rising up, enslavers restricted their consumption, providing only the least desirable and nutritious foods. Since the Great Depression, school lunches have served as dumping grounds for unwanted agricultural surpluses. From frybread to government cheese, Ruin Their Crops on the Ground draws on fifteen years of research to argue that American food law and policy have historically been used to create and maintain racial and cultural inequality. In an epic, sweeping account, Andrea Freeman, who pioneered the term 'food oppression,' moves from missions to Americanize immigrant food culture to the commodities supplied to Native reservations to USDA nutrition programs to milk as symbol of white nationalism. She traces the long-standing alliances between Washington and the food and agricultural industries that have produced gaping racial health disparities. And she shows how these practices continue to this day, in the form of marketing for unhealthy subsidized goods that target communities of color, causing diabetes, high blood pressure and even premature death. Marrying Michael Pollan's insights into food psychology with Michelle Alexander's new understanding of race in the United States, Ruin Their Crops on the Ground is a groundbreaking addition to the history and politics of food. It will permanently upend the notion that we freely and equally choose what we put on our plates.
  table of contents: Introduction: The palatable is political -- Weapons of health destruction -- Survival pending revolution -- Americanization through homemaking -- The unbearable whiteness of milk -- School food failure -- Dee-licious! -- What's law got to do with it?
  target audience: adult
  note: Andrea Freeman.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Food supply
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Food security
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Food industry and trade
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Agricultural industries
    topic: Government policy
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Territorial expansion
  subject:
    topic: Nutrition policy
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Food law and legislation
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General
  classification: HD9005 .F734 2024
  classification: 338.1/973
  identifier: 9781250871046
  identifier: 1250871042
  identifier: 9781250871053
  identifier: 2023055948
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 231228
    record change date: 20250530132413.8
    record identifier: in00005645581