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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 History_Gift_Guide and how sometimes you haveWinner 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 crops now in the ground and prevent their planting more. Destroying