Our aquifers are being permanently drained, our most productive regions are rapidly desertifying, our growing seasons are becoming increasingly unstable as the climate shifts, our crops are genetically homogenous and therefore catastrophically susceptible to disease, our rampant use of pesticides is unraveling the food chain, we're 100% reliant on the use of artificial fertilizers which is dependent on functioning global supply chains and fossil fuels, and even if you can grow the food there's no guarantee that you have the logistics network necessary to distribute it before it rots.
Which is all to say, food is far from a solved problem. And there's nothing in space that's going to address that particular need.
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> practically unlimited food production
Our aquifers are being permanently drained, our most productive regions are rapidly desertifying, our growing seasons are becoming increasingly unstable as the climate shifts, our crops are genetically homogenous and therefore catastrophically susceptible to disease, our rampant use of pesticides is unraveling the food chain, we're 100% reliant on the use of artificial fertilizers which is dependent on functioning global supply chains and fossil fuels, and even if you can grow the food there's no guarantee that you have the logistics network necessary to distribute it before it rots.
Which is all to say, food is far from a solved problem. And there's nothing in space that's going to address that particular need.