1. Famines in History
By Carl DeWall

2. What is a Famine?
• A famine is describes as a wide spread of scarcity
of food

3. Great Famine Of India
• Forced to export to Britain
• Drought
• Poor Relief effort

4. Irish Potato Famine
• Forced to export goods to Britain
• Potato Blight

5. Ethics
• Utilitarianism
• Justice

6. Bibliography
• Works Cited
• "The Great Irish Potato Famine." The Great Irish Potato
Famine. N.p., n.d. Web. 01 Mar. 2013.
<http://irishpotatofamine.net/>.
• Kelleher, Margaret. "Hunger and History: Monuments to the
Great Irish Famine." Textual Practice 16.2 (2002): 249-76.
Print.
• Klein, I. "When the Rains Failed: Famine, Relief, and Mortality
in British India." Indian Economic & Social History Review 21.2
(1984): 185-214. Print.