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Essay heading: Irish Potatoe Famine
 
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These new potatoes were originally grown for feed for farm animals and were more prone to disease, but because they grew in the poorest conditions possible, humans would have to eat them due to the loss of the healthier potatoes. In 1845, a crop disease known as "blight" would be introduced to Ireland...
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It was a disease that would cause potatoes to rot while they grew. It was from guano, which was part of a fertilizer that was imported from South America. The contaminated fertilizer would also scatter to other countries in Europe such as France, Germany, The Netherlands, and England. It was responsible for thousands of deaths in these countries but was soon eliminated, as the countries were not as dependent on the potato as the Irish were...
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