[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

Although it's not mentioned in the book review, Ukraine in the 30s was I think the only place to ever see a large outbreak of deaths by black mold. They were so starved that they ate moldy grains from the fields, and so ingested huge amounts of black mold and died by the thousands, if not the tens of 1000s.

The legacy of that statistic is still seen today in the US, when mold-removal outfits try to scare you into spending 5 figures on mold mitigation procedures to your home (replace all carpet, drywall, subfloor, etc) by telling you of the huge numbers of people who have "died from black mold," not mentioning that nearly 100% of those deaths were from the Ukraine and similar starving populaces.

[A strike]

Yeah, the millions died from mold.

Stupid jerk !