Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxq.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!ihnp4!ihuxq!amigo2 From: amigo2@ihuxq.UUCP (John Hobson) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: More Joy of Starvation - (nf) Message-ID: <565@ihuxq.UUCP> Date: Mon, 30-Jan-84 15:46:57 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxq.565 Posted: Mon Jan 30 15:46:57 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 5-Feb-84 11:13:07 EST References: <5182@uiucdcs.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 20 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 ihnp4!ihuxq!amigo2