What are some times food changed the course of history
Throughout the entire period of the Famine, Ireland was exporting enormous quantities of food. Cormac O'Grada points out that, in Ireland before and after the famine, "Although the potato crop failed, the country was still producing and exporting more than enough grain crops to feed the population. But that was a 'money crop' and not a 'food crop' and could not be interfered with.
>>7485777
It is a shame but they would have been kicked off the farms and small holdings if they didn't sell it. Only after did the Tenant agreement laws actually help them defend their livelihoods.
If I remember correctly
>>7485762
When Jesus fed a thousand people with 2 fish and 3 loaves of bread
Beer may have contributed to civilization itself. If ancient people wanted beer on a mass scale, they needed to work together. Growing and malting grains then fermenting it into a drink takes a lot of organization.
>>7485805
What did he mean by this?
>>7485818
>>7485834
The meaning for ants
>>7485869
>576x2250
you have to click on the image to enlarge it pal
>>7485777
Fuck the British for creating an incentive for those potato nigger to come to America and permanently harm us with shitty irish spawn.
>>7485834
i hate this comic so fucking much
>>7485875
Like the Presidents?
>>7485919
The grunge band from 90s?
>>7485762
The Tea Act of 1773 was a pretty good one.
Establishment of the Dutch East India company was a good one. Wrote to book on how to set up a government backed multinational corporate monopoly, providing the template for capitalism to follow.
Bread and grain prices tend to be pretty important throughout history
>>7485834
LOL
>>7485762
I always liked that quote from that shitty chuck palahniuk (sp?) book about the bravest people or the people who changed history were the first people tried eating something no one else had ever tried.
I vote for the Columbian exchange or to a lesser degree the triangle trade, though neither were really a specified event.
Preserved canned food changed military history forever. Probably as important as the invention of self contained cartridges.
>>7486513
Not in the US they won't. We have a huge system in place to keep food super cheap. As long as it stays that way the people will not be rising up against the system in any more meaningful way than attending Trump/Sanders rallies.
>>7485818
Well early drinks weren't quite "beer" as we think of it today but more a hodgepodge of fermentation.
>>7486883
Though for quite some time they were unlined and caused poisoning through the metal leeching into the food.
Even today we are re-evaluating how we store foods, recently read about a ban/recall on certain "food-contact materials" used in some brands of pizza and other fast food.
>>7486972
A lot of it is kind of self-fulfilling too like the huge incentives for corn growers for corn syrup and shit feed for factory farming and economies that become reliant on continuing that pattern.
Corn and soy are some of the biggest crops in no small part due to the money the government pays to grow it fueled by politicians after deals for their districts but more often for their friends and private interests helped along by lobbyists throwing private money at the elections of whoever plays ball.
in 1621 when the new settlers to North America had the first Thanksgiving meal with the native indians and poisoned them with their poor cooking and said AW CRAP WE KILLED THEM BOB so went on to murder most the rest of them in the whole country to hide their mistake
>>7487843
But wasnt canning in the first two world wars not so much about preserving for a year plus but rather preserving over say a couple months, in addition to shipping and distributing.
It seems like even though some metal posioning(that i dont know is true) occured, the impact of canning is still significant.
>>7485762
the whole transatlantic slave trade!! sugar!!!
>>7485762
and boston tea party
the spice trade too
One of the reasons the Columbian Exchange was so deadly for the New World was that Euros and Arabs lived in close quarters with their domesticated animals, which furthered the breadth of pathogens. So when Euros with smallpox (from cows) came to America it wiped out the indians making it far easier for the new world to be colonized
One of the most obvious ones is spices from the East Indies and India. It's why Columbus sailed west and India speaks English
