Book Portfolio #2

Hunger:
This book was very interesting. It was basically about the process of hunger. But also the history of hunger. In the book it spoke about The Great Hunger of Ireland. This is some history of hunger. This can also be known as the great potato famine. It lasted from 1845-1850. It all started when disease reached a crop of potatoes. This made the people start to worry. It then ruined another crop and another. People began to just eat the potato seeds and those who had none starved to death. This event was estimated to have cut the population in half. There was also the Chinese Famine. This lastest from 1958-1961. Basically what happened is the government forced the peasants from farming and into the mill work. Then the food industry took a hit because they didn't have many people to harvest the food. This book had a lot of good facts if you want to learn about the way hunger works and some of it's history.