Controversial documentary maker Michael Moore says his Irish American background has a lot to do with his work; "that we’ll be judged by how we treat the least among us -- and that the rich man is basically up to no good.”
The destructive fungal disease – the same one that caused the potato famine in Ireland in the 1840s – that first sprung up in plants in Rhode Island and New York has spread even further in the northeast to Massachusetts farms.
New York has been hit by Irish Famine disease. The destructive fungal blight is wiping out tomato and potato plants across the state and much of the Northeast. The technical terms is "late blight," but it's the same disease that caused the Irish Potato Famine in the 1840s.