Surprisingly, that's not quite true. That is, people do need food, but humanity over-produces food massively already [1]. And in many countries, you'll collaps

Surprisingly, that's not quite true. That is, people do need food, but humanity over-produces food massively already [1]. And in many countries, you'll collapse economically if you try to live by selling food - and it's government subsidies which keep farming afloat. [1] - Of course there's also massive hunger due to the failure of our species to more reasonably distribute the food it produces, biases in which kinds of food get produced where and when etc.