The British taste for beef had a devastating impact on the impoverished and disenfranchised people of...
Ireland... Pushed off the best pasture land and forced to farm smaller plots of marginal land, the Irish turned to the potato, a crop that could be grown abundantly in less favorable soil. Eventually, cows took over much of Ireland, leaving the native population virtually dependent on the potato for survival.

Ireland was used as an agrarian country to provide cheap food products to England until the nineteenth century. Much of the land was actually owned by the English lords... This life of poverty and injustice created an almost total dependence on the easily and cheaply grown potato.

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Much of the land was actually owned by the English lords

Pushed off the best pasture land and forced to ''farm smaller plots of marginal land, the Irish turned to the potato'', a crop that could be grown abundantly in less favorable soil

almost total dependence on the easily and cheaply grown potato.