@johnny, @john, and others: Food is important, but innovation is frankly more important. The economist Thomas Malthus proved in the 1800s that innovation and technology were the only reason crops could be grown in ever greater quantities to support a burgeoning human population. If we sat around and said “oh let’s just plant seeds” we would never have invented fertilizer, mechanization, etc. and most of us probably wouldn’t be around today. Innovation has always been, and will always be, the catalyst to solving the worlds most pressing problems.