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From: amigo2@ihuxq.UUCP (John Hobson)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: More Joy of Starvation - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 30-Jan-84 15:46:57 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 30 15:46:57 1984
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Another example of food being exported from a country where there
was wide-spread starvation was Ireland in the great potato famine of
the 1840s.  There was a blight that destroyed potatoes, which was
the principal food of the people, and much of the wheat that was
grown in Ireland (not enough to feed the vast majority of the
starving people) was exported to England and the continent of
Europe.

There were also debates in Parliament on the "Corn Laws"  (to most
Europeans, unlike Americans, "corn" means wheat, not maize), which
were protectionist tarriffs on the importation of grain into the
British Isles.  Amazingly, many of the English argricultural
interests said "We don't give a damn about the starving Irish, just
keep our prices up."

				John Hobson
				AT&T Bell Labs
				Naperville, IL
				(312) 979-7293
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