population responds to available food. if there was a 50 year food boom, population also boomed. setting food levels back to prior values creates a lot of econo

population responds to available food. if there was a 50 year food boom, population also boomed. setting food levels back to prior values creates a lot of economic pressure to find cheap food. If 1/5 of the calories humans consume need to be obtained from some other source, the economics get weird.