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minus-squareColeslaw4145@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20arrow-down1·5 days agoGood thing my country exports 90% of its agricultural produce, so if we start getting hungry then we’ll just export a bit less. (We learned the hard way a long time ago when we ran out of potatoes.)
minus-squareViper_NZ@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23arrow-down2·5 days agoIreland was exporting food during the potato famine. Don’t assume your food won’t continue to be sold overseas if the growers/wholesalers can make more money that way.
minus-squareColeslaw4145@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·5 days ago Ireland was exporting food during the potato famine. *Britian was exporting food from Ireland during the famine.
minus-squareQwel@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 days agoRegardless of nationality, don’t expect your billionaire overlord to have ethics if it comes at the cost of a 0.7% income loss
minus-squareColeslaw4145@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 days agoWhat billionaire overlord? Irish agriculture is made up of over 100,000 independant family farms, and each farmers income is on average about €40-50k. We produce enough beef to support almost 3x the population and enough dairy for 10x the population. Ireland is the 2nd most food secure country in the world.
minus-squareQwel@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 days agoThat sounds impressive, I never heard about it. Do you have some resource about it? I don’t know how to search for it and Google is, like, you know
minus-squareKeenFlame@feddit.nulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 days agoNo, you have to expect your government to do that, which is why almost the entire world is not hyper capitalist choochoo trains
minus-squareWhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·5 days agoI mean, you exported 90% of your agricultural produce back then, too.
Good thing my country exports 90% of its agricultural produce, so if we start getting hungry then we’ll just export a bit less.
(We learned the hard way a long time ago when we ran out of potatoes.)
Ireland was exporting food during the potato famine.
Don’t assume your food won’t continue to be sold overseas if the growers/wholesalers can make more money that way.
*Britian was exporting food from Ireland during the famine.
Regardless of nationality, don’t expect your billionaire overlord to have ethics if it comes at the cost of a 0.7% income loss
What billionaire overlord? Irish agriculture is made up of over 100,000 independant family farms, and each farmers income is on average about €40-50k.
We produce enough beef to support almost 3x the population and enough dairy for 10x the population.
Ireland is the 2nd most food secure country in the world.
That sounds impressive, I never heard about it. Do you have some resource about it? I don’t know how to search for it and Google is, like, you know
No, you have to expect your government to do that, which is why almost the entire world is not hyper capitalist choochoo trains
I mean, you exported 90% of your agricultural produce back then, too.