Yet they also contributed to the situation by not fertilizing their fields with anything other than potato peels. And by not planting in different locations or different field sections. The Irish maintained livestock and didn’t engage in rotational grazing, despite the prevalent knowledge of how helpful it was.

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Maybe stop taking all of your contextual historical knowledge from cartoons, and try learning about things from primary sources.

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With their fucking livestock’s shit—just like every other agricultural community in the world was doing at the time. Graze a field, plant a field. Rotate. It was common knowledge. The Irish absolutely have livestock. My grandparents still live there. You can see it in every fucking paper and journal time period.

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I’m not blaming anyone for anything. I’m pointing out that their own mismanagement of their resources contributed to their dire situation. They had shared responsibility. That’s just a fucking fact.

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