Sarah TaberY'all know what day it is 🍀
In the US, St. Patrick's Day is strongly tied to the event that led so many Irish people to emigrate here: the famine of 1847.
Food systems & supply chains make history.
Nicole ParsonsThe rich people behind planned famines like the Irish Great Famine never get the notoriety & infamy they deserve in history books.
The Irish Potato Famine was a public policy failure as much as a crop blight.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)
Whenever there's a crisis, you can count on aristocrats to continue to extract profit for themselves & absolve themselves of any responsibility to help.
