I have read this all before in many different journals and many different forums. This has also gone far afield from the original post.

It is hard to argue against one simple fact. Food was transported out of Ireland to other countries while many people in Ireland starved to death. I have no interest in the old politics or how they are manipulated to adress some real or imagined injustices in the present, people starved to death because of the apparent intended will of another group of people. The very though of using food as weapon to enforce or implement a political doctrine on a non combatant population is chilling.

That alone should be considered anathema by every person in this room regardless of who is doing it to whom.

E.M.