• zbyte64@awful.systems
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    10 hours ago

    You know the Irish wouldn’t have starved so bad if the Brits didn’t insist they export all food that wasn’t potatoes. Let’s not use bad policies as an example for why we can’t have good policies.

    • plyth@feddit.org
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      4 hours ago

      I meant to say that the problem could be another potato destroing mold. The famine could be avoided by switching to ethanol corn.

      Not growing that corn would lead to the same result as exporting it.