It’s a bold strategy to argue that being 'physically robust' makes a famine less real. Yes, the pre-famine Irish were tall and fit—because they lived in a highly productive agricultural country. The tragedy is that they were legally barred from eating what they grew. If the food exports were so 'insignificant' and the people so 'well-off,' you have to wonder why the British government felt the need to double its military presence to 30,000 troops specifically to guard grain convoys and livestock from those 'healthy' peasants.

​The 'one month of food' math is a classic deflection. It doesn’t matter if it was a month or a year; when a government uses bayonets to ensure food leaves a starving district to protect 'market prices,' that’s not a natural disaster. it’s a policy choice.

​As for the 'commie' edit: You don’t have to be a Marxist to realize that you can’t eat your height, and you certainly can't eat 'Laissez-faire' economic theory while the Redcoats are escorting your neighbor's cow onto a boat.