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- **Event Name**: Non-Fiction Book Club - Squirrel Hill
- **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 16 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Mon, 20 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: This month, we are discussing Ruin Their Crops on the Ground by Andrea Freeman.About this EventNeed to order a copy of the book? You can do so .About the book: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 eraIn 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 unwanted agricultural surpluses.From frybread to government cheese, Ruin Their Crops on the Ground draws on over fifteen years of research to argue that U.S. food law and policy have created and maintained racial and social inequality. In an epic, sweeping account, Andrea Freeman, who pioneered the term “food oppression,” moves from colonization to slavery to the Americanization of immigrant food culture, to the commodities supplied to Native reservations, to milk as a symbol of white supremacy. She traces the long-standing alliance between the government and food industries that have produced gaping racial health disparities, and she shows how these practices continue to this day, through the marketing of unhealthy goods that target marginalized communities, causing diabetes, high blood pressure, and premature death.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.
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Pittsburgh
- **state**: PA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Riverstone Books
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- **full address**: Riverstone Books, 5841 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, United States

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- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Mon, 16 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm (-04:00)
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