Oh, no no no... It's so much worse than even that

See, farming massive fields is pretty easy with technology, and with petrochemical fertilizer you can grow in depleted soil. So is keeping livestock, more so if you keep them in cruel conditions

So there's a problem there... And I don't mean the environmental issues. It's too cheap. Farmers would have to sell at a loss

We produce so much food that the farms would all go out of business without intervention.

But the government can't set quotas or control access to the market... That's socialism or something

Instead, the government pays farmers to burn portion of their crop, we put ethanol in gasoline (even though it's a bad idea), the government siezes some of the crop to stockpile and maybe sell (and give you whatever cut they like), we used to ship tons of food overseas through USAID, and so much more

Industrial farming does not play nice with capitalism.