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Didn't work for the Irish. British took all the meat and left the potatoes behind. So although they were kept alive, it wasn't a great existence. And then the

• narinxas 3y ago
  all that desperation IS a source of energy, granted the boundaries/gates/walls are administered in such a way to allow harvest... just (maybe toke up and) think about how mitochondria actually work. the 'energy' all comes from gradients of various sorts of presures (like the presure of hunger i.e. desperation)
• Wildgoose 3y ago
  Not actually true. The first year the Famine Relief provided by the British Government was better than anything anywhere else in Europe, (which was also affected). The second and third years the pressure on the Treasury was such that Westminster wanted the rich Irish to also contribute, (Ireland wasn't subjected to the Income Tax being paid in Britain). The Irish refused and so in response Westminster dumped the problem of Famine Relief entirely on Irish local government, which was simply incapable to take on such a mammoth task. (The reason why the Treasury couldn't afford to borrow the money required was that they had just recently borrowed huge sums of money to buy the freedom of all the slaves in the British Empire).