• Coleslaw4145@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Ireland was exporting food during the potato famine.

    *Britian was exporting food from Ireland during the famine.

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      4 days ago

      Regardless of nationality, don’t expect your billionaire overlord to have ethics if it comes at the cost of a 0.7% income loss

      • Coleslaw4145@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        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.

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          3 days ago

          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

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        4 days ago

        No, you have to expect your government to do that, which is why almost the entire world is not hyper capitalist choochoo trains