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> while forcibly maintaining the exports of  
> food from Ireland while people were starving is not an example of a  
> 'local' economy. 

Not only was Ireland exporting food during the Potato Famine in the form of 
pork and oats and such, but despite the famine, there were still enough 
potatoes to feed the population .... which the absentee land "owners" fed to 
the pigs.
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