[Jimmy Valentine]

"We need a better word than famine. It is not a famine when you are exporting food (crops, livestock)"

So what would you call it when over 1 million starve in the midst of plenty? Ireland exported oats and wheat during the famine.

Would the Ukrainian "Famine" in which 10 million people starved while Stalin exported grain qualify?

Maybe a "misallocation of supply and demand" might be better?

[seamusnh]

"So what would you call it when over 1 million starve in the midst of plenty? Ireland exported oats and wheat during the famine."

We are in agreement. How about "Negligent Genocide"? Kind of like "negligent homicide"...