Quite a lot of agricultural isn&#x27;t to keep people from starving to death - think hemp, cotton, tea&#x2F;coffee, sugar cane, natural rubber, chocolate, and coca in places it is legal. None of those things prevent people from starving at all.<p>A lot of agricultural foodstuff is terribly inefficient at meeting the goal of &quot;keeping people from starving.&quot; We grow them though (and produce in the case of meat) because humans really enjoy them. If the main goal was to prevent starvation we wouldn&#x27;t produce resource-intensive food products or we would produce them in moderation.<p>Agriculture&#x27;s purpose is economic. Eating (and eating tasty food) does have a large demand though.