Duesing's comments and Macgregor's response both contain some good points
and some stretchers. I don't want to let Macgregor's interpretation of
the Irish famine go unchallenged.
I'm under the impression that grain exports continued from Ireland
in the mid-19th century when the potato crops failed. The famine, it
seems to me, came from a failure of the social system. Technical approaches
to sustaining agriculture are necessary but not sufficient, for local and
global food security.
John Lozier