sensitive subject - YES
Still I have a question, are you an organic farmer?
The situation I read about is a good year with much left
in the fields. Compost piles would normally have pig
feces in them, potentially human as well to help decompose
the left over parts of the potato plant.
1944 Good year surplus left in fields
1945 bad weather that ruined the crop (left in field)
little if no animal waste (the animals were used
for rent or eaten early), a lot of sick people
so human waste would not have good bacteria
*granted now days they could use a fungicide
-if they are not orgaic farms-
BUT
many in England, Ireland, and Scotland are
going to organic farming
they may have to top dress those fields
NOW with good manure if they expect healthy
soil next year.
I am suggesting a potential by-product of the
Irish potato famine. I am also speculating
on what a by-product of Genetically Modified
crops could do to an organic farm.
All farmers should have been "organic" in 1845.
ThePiedPiper 13August2000
nessie wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED],Internet writes:
> >
> >There was a particularly good year the previous year and
>
> >many potatoes were left in the field. If you know that the
>
> >potato is a member of the nightshade family and that the
> >whole plant will turn poisonous with age. By leaving them
>
> >in the fields to decompose they could have set themselves
>
> >up with bad soil, then when the weather turned foul the next
>
> >year the scene had already been set for fungus.
>
> I raise potatoes in my yard. The fungus is in the soil. It only becomes a
> problem when the weather is wetter than a certain degree. Last year was an
> El Nino year. It didn't stop raining till June. my crop was ruined. This
> year they're doing fine.
>
> >
> >Unless the
>
> >English also controlled the weather in 1845...
>
> What the Brits controlled was the troops. If you fell behind on your rent
> a bunch of armed men would come around and throw you off of your farm.
> Consequently, my ancestors were forced to raise wheat, beef and pork for
> export, but couldn't afford to eat any. Instead they lived on potatoes.
> The "shanty" Irish (the vast majority of us )typically lived in a two room
> shack. The entire family lived in one room and raised a pig or two in the
> other room. Once a year the pig was slaughtered, the meat sold, and the
> rent paid. This was called "keeping a pig in the parlor." The pig himself
> was called "the gentleman who pays the rent."
>
> This is how colonialism works. It only ended in Ireland when the Irish had
> killed enough of the right Brits. It still goes on in the North. Today,
> colonialism the world over has evolved into neo-colonialism. Under
> neo-colonialism the political control of the country is in the hands of a
> tiny native elite while the control of the economy is in the hands of
> foreign corporations. This is what the WTO, the IMF, the WB, etc, are all
> about. The right calls this the New World Order. The left calls it
> Neo-Liberalism. Anarchists call it the Same Old Same Old. But what ever
> you call it, it's exploitation and it's wrong.
>
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