Hey blight, the 1840s called… They want their disease back!!!
The Blight 2: Electric Boogaloo
This is it, lads.
😱
But you know, we’re still not actually going to do anything about climate change.
Edit; Well this turned out to be an unpopular statement. What do ye think is going to happen if we keep eating vast quantities of meat and dairy, driving everywhere and flying frequently? This is the consequences of our actions and we’re still not doing anywhere near enough to remedy it. This will be our new normal.
Supermarkets;
10/23 – 49c for 500g of New Potato’s – Origin New Zealand
11/23 4.99 for 500g of new Potato’s – Origin New Zealand
During the spring a lot of veg was planted late due to the bad weather then. Bad weather now is a killer. Growing vegetables in Ireland can be heart breaking.
Better get the Americans to fire Ellis Island back up. Lads on tour.
But I love spuds 😔
It’s a disaster for farmers and such a loss of quality for us as consumers
Somebody get on to the Choctaws, see if they can spare us some change again.
Paging u/tellum_ to tell us a bit of rain never damaged any crops.
I never really get why Irish people assume that we are somehow an ideal location for growing potatoes or that they’re something that’s somehow intrinsically part of Ireland’s agricultural landscape.
They have only been a commercially scaled crop here since the 1750s, and are from the Andes in modern Peru and Bolivia. They arrived earlier than that but it took over a century to get them acclimatised and adapted to the conditions here.
We had no choice but to survive on them in the 19th century, but the climate here is arguably often far too wet for them to be a very reliable crop.
they predict wetter and wetter seasons for Ireland. we grow feck all fruit and veg in ireland and what we do grow will be seriously affected by climate change.
we only really produce beef and dairy, we should be working on becoming more self sufficient when it comes to providing calories to the nation, most of the calories we consume are imported.
Jesus fucking christ this year was bad enough without a fucking the famine 2 climate change boogaloo
I think we really need to help irish farmers, especially the vegtable farmers who have been hit my this years fucked up weather, they should be getting bailed out. if eamon ryan came out and wanted to get the government to bail out vegtable farmers to give farmers an alternative to cattle, it would be amazing for his image within the farming community. if the greens did more to encourage vegatable and fruit farming it would be great and they could actually get more clout within the community
Imagine the price for a box of wedges in Centra now!!
And because everything needs its soundtrack, here’s Ding Dong Denny O‘Reilly with his famine lament “The Potatoes Aren’t Looking the Best”
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Hey blight, the 1840s called… They want their disease back!!!
The Blight 2: Electric Boogaloo
This is it, lads.
😱
But you know, we’re still not actually going to do anything about climate change.
Edit; Well this turned out to be an unpopular statement. What do ye think is going to happen if we keep eating vast quantities of meat and dairy, driving everywhere and flying frequently? This is the consequences of our actions and we’re still not doing anywhere near enough to remedy it. This will be our new normal.
Supermarkets;
10/23 – 49c for 500g of New Potato’s – Origin New Zealand
11/23 4.99 for 500g of new Potato’s – Origin New Zealand
During the spring a lot of veg was planted late due to the bad weather then. Bad weather now is a killer. Growing vegetables in Ireland can be heart breaking.
Better get the Americans to fire Ellis Island back up. Lads on tour.
But I love spuds 😔
It’s a disaster for farmers and such a loss of quality for us as consumers
Somebody get on to the Choctaws, see if they can spare us some change again.
Paging u/tellum_ to tell us a bit of rain never damaged any crops.
I never really get why Irish people assume that we are somehow an ideal location for growing potatoes or that they’re something that’s somehow intrinsically part of Ireland’s agricultural landscape.
They have only been a commercially scaled crop here since the 1750s, and are from the Andes in modern Peru and Bolivia. They arrived earlier than that but it took over a century to get them acclimatised and adapted to the conditions here.
We had no choice but to survive on them in the 19th century, but the climate here is arguably often far too wet for them to be a very reliable crop.
they predict wetter and wetter seasons for Ireland. we grow feck all fruit and veg in ireland and what we do grow will be seriously affected by climate change.
we only really produce beef and dairy, we should be working on becoming more self sufficient when it comes to providing calories to the nation, most of the calories we consume are imported.
Jesus fucking christ this year was bad enough without a fucking the famine 2 climate change boogaloo
I think we really need to help irish farmers, especially the vegtable farmers who have been hit my this years fucked up weather, they should be getting bailed out. if eamon ryan came out and wanted to get the government to bail out vegtable farmers to give farmers an alternative to cattle, it would be amazing for his image within the farming community. if the greens did more to encourage vegatable and fruit farming it would be great and they could actually get more clout within the community
Imagine the price for a box of wedges in Centra now!!
And because everything needs its soundtrack, here’s Ding Dong Denny O‘Reilly with his famine lament “The Potatoes Aren’t Looking the Best”
https://youtu.be/YVlb1i0x0ew?si=JIpeOq1rDKes3oeU