From: Don Bowen KI6DIU <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>
To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Localism, was Teamsters endorse Obama
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:46:30 -0800
At 2/23/2008, you wrote:
I only used it to show the vulnerability of relying on local food
production. I happen to be a big advocate of local food production,
but I think it is insane to rely on it and not have alternative
supplies.
The problem with the Irish Potato was that it was a single genetic
variety. A pathogen would then attack and take most of the crop until a
new variety came along. There were several Potato Famines over the course
of the century. At one time the Irish Immigrant was hated more than the
Hispanic immigrant of today. Many of our early immigration laws were
designed to control the Irish on the east coast and the Chinese on the west.