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The lack of diversity was not in food production, but rather in land ownership, and being able to own the fruits of your own labor. Plenty of food, just none of
by epistasis 2y ago
The lack of diversity was not in food production, but rather in land ownership, and being able to own the fruits of your own labor. Plenty of food, just none of it for the Irish because they did not own the land.
- baq 2y agoDon’t forget to mention what happened when you tried to get some of that not your food so you could attempt to survive…
- disgruntledphd2 2y agoWhat, like stealing Cromwellian corn so the young might see the morn? Win a free trip to Australia!
- Gibbon1 2y agoI made a guesstimate that it was cheaper for Britain to send unemployed people to Australia than it would be to feed them.
- disgruntledphd2 2y agoDefinitely not. My line was from a very famous Irish song, called the fields of athenry, about exactly this.
- I_complete_me 2y agoIs this a deliberate replacement for Trevelyan?