The thing about food is this: in the US today we can produce much more food than we could ever consume.

We have to beg countries to take our chlorinated chickens, to bring up an example from a couple of years ago wrt the UK.

Our (in the US) problem today is primarily one of social malaise, of not knowing what to do, what to believe, or what our goals are.

We can make food, clothing, shelter more than enough for all.

That we fight over these things is about our need for hierarchies, to figure out who is the top dog.