Ruin Their Crops on the Ground Quotes

“Health equality is foundational to all other forms of equality, which people cannot enjoy in the face of sickness or death.”
― Andrea Freeman, Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch

“Attaching work requirements to government benefits reflects a belief that social assistance is not a right of citizenship but a gift that its recipients must earn. It insists that poverty is not an accident of birth and social circumstances but a reflection of individuals’ bad choices or capabilities.”
― Andrea Freeman, Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch

“Corporations do not feel compassion. Sickness and loss do not move them. Appealing to their humanity is not an effective political strategy.”
― Andrea Freeman, Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch

“The USDA is responsible for feeding students who cannot afford lunch. Letting empathetic strangers pick up the tab falsely frames poverty, food insecurity, and discrimination as individual, not systemic, issues”
― Andrea Freeman, Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch

“Subsidies make the unhealthiest food the cheapest. And prices for basic goods are higher in poor neighborhoods. Items sold in bigger packages cost less per ounce but stores in poor areas generally stock only small quantities”
― Andrea Freeman, Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch