You are making a lot of assumptions here. Chief among them is that the price of food must always be strongly tied to the prices of other things in the consumer

You are making a lot of assumptions here. Chief among them is that the price of food must always be strongly tied to the prices of other things in the consumer price index. But clearly, that does not need to be the case. Especially after how unsustainably humans use farmland: https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/02/arable-land-soil-food-security-shortage https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/02/arable-l...