1. Famine Questions
Malthus predicted that the population was growing too fast and would outpace the food supply. How did the British supplement the food supply of their food supply? At whose expense?

2. We entered a cabin. Stretched in one dark corner, scarcely visible, from the smoke and rags that covered them, were three children huddled together, lying there because they were too weak to rise, pale and ghastly, their little limbs— on removing a portion of the filthy covering— perfectly emaciated, eyes sunk, voice gone, and evidently in the last stage of actual starvation.
—William Bennett, The Peoples of Ireland

3. Potato Famine
Ireland experienced a famine in 1845 when their main crop, the potato, was destroyed by disease.  Irish farmers grew other food items, such as wheat and oats, but Great Britain required them to export those items to England, leaving nothing for the Irish to live on.  As a result, over 1 million Irish died of starvation or disease, while millions of others migrated to the United States. – Source: Regents Prep: Global History and Geography: Movement of People and Goods.
Bridget O'Donnell and her two children during the famine

4. Famine Questions
Malthus predicted that the population was growing too fast and would outpace the food supply. How did the British supplement the food supply of their food supply? At whose expense?