Food Give Away

Day 2,378, 15:29 • Published in Ireland Ireland • by Releasethe Krakken


In the spirit of Mr. Tayto's food giveaway I will be giving some food away

As you can recall food gives you energy which you use to fight and work in your factories (random erepublik factiod)

As always this is only open for players of eIreland.

Now to keep it fair system will work as follow:

Division 1 : Your excluded*
Division 2 : Your Excluded*
Division 3: 100 Energy
Division 4: 500 Energy

Clerics can just pm if they want anything.

Just shout in the bottom comments you want a can of corned beef as I read Corned Beef and Cabbages is an Irish favorite.

Also an interesting fact a country fights in 4 division not 3 and any fight takes from your available food.(random erepublik factoid)



* I just wanted to share with you the joy of being excluded of Ireland handouts such as all Division 4's is at the moment
Historic backdrop:

Why is it important to share food with all: We only need to go back in our own Irish History(yours to be exact)

“Starving in the Midst of Plenty”
Potato famine started because irish poor people had little land and relied on potatoes as their sole means of food. A blight destroyed their crops and over a million people died. In this time we saw 2 types of landlords those that was uncaring and would evict workers who didnt pay the rent due to hardship and others that actually cared.

Searching for potatoes
The famine was not really a famine at all.

Ireland, then as now, was a country capable of producing large quantities of food, and continued to do so throughout the famine years.

Only a single crop, the potato, failed. No other crops were affected and there were oats and barley being produced in Ireland throughout these years. But these were considered ‘cash crops’, produced for export and owned not by those who worked in the fields but by large landowners. Food exports continued virtually unabated even as people starved.

William Smith-O’Brien, a wealthy land owner from Dromoland Castle who was sympathetic to the plight of the poor, observed in 1846:

“The circumstances which appeared most aggravating was that the people were starving in the midst of plenty, and that every tide carried from the Irish ports corn sufficient for the maintenance of thousands of the Irish people.“

In Cork in 1846, a coastguard officer, Robert Mann, travelled the county and reported seeing innumerable starving and desperate people and then…:

“We were literally stopped by carts laden with grain, butter, bacon, etc. being taken to the vessels loading from the quay. It was a strange anomaly“

This correlates to a great extend with the Grapes of Wrath where to the end it is revealed that government dropped millions of tons of food in the sea whilst new emigrants was starving and die'ing

That is why a good MOE will never turn away any hungry brother from the collective pots of eIreland.