Actually no I'm not over estimating the value and worth of food. You should really take a look at Maslow's hierarchy of needs before commenting. Food water air are the most important things one needs to have before anything else. If you really think food isn't that valuable, then you are seriously mistaken. If you just chop the sales of food out of an entire market, and you don't think anyone or anything is going to suffer, then you truly are an idiot. Although I agree that on a microeconomics basis that food really isn't that expensive, I'm talking about the entire community. If you just start offering free food to everyone in the entire community, that's macroeconomics. We are talking on a large scale. Food is actually very, very valuable. I'm not talking about going and buying a bag of apples at the grocery store. I'm talking all of the apples that it could possibly take to fuel an entire city, such as Chicago. You still don't think food is that valuable? Please, I invite you to start your own food for us and provide all of the apples, let alone all of the vegetables and fruits collectively that Chicago would need in one month. You really think food is that cheap? Please, go do it.

But if you would actually close your mouth and open your ears or your eyes, you would know that food isn't actually as cheap as you think it is. First of all you can't just go get a giant plot of land to go form and harvest food on. Second, even if you could, you wouldn't have enough human capital, the know-how, and the labor, to do it efficiently. If it was really as simple as everyone just starting a garden in their backyard, don't you think we would? You're underestimating just how much time and energy food takes to make. This includes the fact that you don't realize things that many farmers have Learned over entire centuries, such as switching forming plots and rotating crops. So what if everyone began relying on your food, your volunteer, free food, and then you realize 30 years later that suddenly you can't provide all of the food society demands, but you've effectively eliminated all of the small businesses trying to provide that food? Congratulations, you've just contributed to more starving and more hunger then you originally set out to eliminate.