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No doubt Farmer Blight can stand it, and has got used to the jokes produced by a not altogether happy conjunction of name and business.
species cause thousands of millions of dollars of damage to the world's commercial crops every year: they blight potatoes and tomatoes, devastate the lucrative soybean, and rot cacao, threatening the world's supply of chocolate (Figure 1).
To argue, as Foer does--that the notion that the British government bears a substantial measure of responsibility for the humanitarian crisis of the famine is merely an Irish "folk tradition"--is as absurd as arguing that the blight itself was introduced deliberately in a genocidal conspiracy.
The result is romanticization: Terrorist groups like the IRA become freedom fighters, and a blight becomes genocide.
It has been renamed Via dei Fori Imperiali , some what ironically, as the frenzied traffic on it is a serious blight to the enjoyment of the remains of the ancient Imperial Fora themselves.