Come on, was this really the first time somebody correlated hunger with riots? Also, I appreciate the scientific method, but it is not true that we can not kno

Come on, was this really the first time somebody correlated hunger with riots? Also, I appreciate the scientific method, but it is not true that we can not know things without it. For example the people who go rioting because they are hungry know that they go rioting because they are hungry. Over time, lots of people have rioted because they were hungry, and the knowledge has slowly attritioned into the public body of knowledge...