Why were the Irish so dependent on potatoes as a staple food at the time of the Great Famine? Why couldn’t they just have turned to other grains as an alternative to stop more deaths from happening?
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We did have plenty of other food. But the english were taking it as “rent” to feed their army who was invading India.
On top of that, we had hundreds of years of oppression. One particularly evil thing that was bestowed upon us were the Penal Laws. Look them up. One of them was that you had to divide your farm per each child, so within a few generations, people were trying to eke out a living on “land” the size of a modern bathroom. And then the bastards took your food as rent, to live in your own land.
Not going to write any more, getting too angry.
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