Subject: Re: [Homestead] Localism, was Teamsters endorse Obama
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:26:18 EST
> 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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