Fiona’s Reviews > Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch > Status Update

"Louisiana gave New Orleans’s Crescent slaughterhouse a monopoly, forcing anyone in the business of butchering meat to work for the company or not at all. When butchers filed a complaint against the monopoly, the Court held that the Thirteenth Amendment could not help them because although it restricted workers’ choices, it was not literal enslavement."

"Fast food contains most of the subsidized commodities that the USDA’s mandate compels it to promote—milk, meat, wheat, soy, and corn. Powerful corporate lobbying ensures that a shift in subsidy priorities is not going to happen any time soon, if ever. In the indefinite future, the USDA will remain heavily invested in the growth and prosperity of fast food, junk food, and soft drinks."

Learning how insane the US dairy industry is...crazy.

"Sometimes food produced in the United States is less healthy than the same food is in other countries. For example, the way U.S. dairies process milk triggers lactose intolerance for many Latine consumers." How do they process it differently then?

It's a lot of citation in this section but not direct analysis. It kind of feels like just information thrown out at you and resummarized.

"More than half the meals served at public schools contain dairy, even though approximately 80 percent of Black and Indigenous people, 90 percent of Asians, 50 percent of Latines, but only 5 percent of Northern Europeans are lactose intolerant."