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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
Actually it was.
famine
▸ noun: a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
▸ noun: an acute insufficiency
That fact that it was engineered and intentional doesn't change that it was a famine.
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Actually, it wasn't:
from a wikipedia article on The Great Hunger
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)
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Christine Kinealy, a University of Liverpool fellow and author of two texts on the famine, Irish Famine: This Great Calamity and A Death-Dealing Famine, writes that Irish exports of calves, livestock (except pigs), bacon and ham actually increased during the famine. The food was shipped under guard from the most famine-stricken parts of Ireland. However, the poor had no money to buy food and the government then did not ban exports
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From an article I read at this collection,
http://www.thegreathunger.org/
"In the worst year of 'the famine' Ireland exported 880,000 pounds of butter to England under armed guard..."
You can hardly call it a famine if there is plenty of food. The problem stemmed from England's handling of the situation.