Sir, - Your correspondent, Jim O'Connor, writes that "modern agriculture still hasn't equalled the output levels achieved in Ireland before the Famine - organically" (June 16th).
He seems to ignore the fact that such output levels depend on labour-intensive agriculture. I doubt that the Celtic kittens would sacrifice their high salaries for subsistence farming and "organic" food.
The famine also showed that "organic" farming does not protect the people from an "organic" blight on the potato crop. - Yours, etc., Fintan M. Clancy,
Hampstead, London NW3.