You've got it backwards -- the very reason that food is plentiful is that there is profit to be made in growing and selling it.
Your statement:
"food isn't scarce for most of us and few have problems acquiring it and the ability to produce it can't be easily collected in the hands of a few, anyone can grow their own food"
is directly contradicted by the millions who starved to death when food production was collectivised under various profit-hating communist regimes.
A statement I'm making about us in the present, is not contradicted because at sometime in the past in some other country under totally different conditions it wasn't true.
That may serve as a counter example, but it doesn't contradict what I said. America is not Russia and just because it went down that way for them does not mean that's how it'll play out for us. Knowing some history is one thing, trying to predict the future from it is another.
You seem to be hung up on extremes, that's not the real world. If I say the free market isn't the solution to every problem it doesn't imply I think it's the solution to no problem and suddenly I'm a communist.
Your statement:
"food isn't scarce for most of us and few have problems acquiring it and the ability to produce it can't be easily collected in the hands of a few, anyone can grow their own food"
is directly contradicted by the millions who starved to death when food production was collectivised under various profit-hating communist regimes.