famine

It was reserved for Christians to torture bread, the staff of life, bread for which children in whole districts wail, bread, the gift of pasture to the poor, bread, for want of which thousands of our fellow beings annually perish by famine; it was reserved for Christians to torture the material of bread by fire, to create a chemical and maddening poison, burning up the brain and brutalizing the soul, and producing evils to humanity, in comparison of which, war, pestilence, and famine, cease to be evils.

The root causes of the current famine are known: poverty, low health standards....

His own flesh, however, which he lost by famine, shall be restored to him by Him who can recover even what has evaporated.

the Lancashire Cotton Famine