Excellent, excellent, excellent essay. I am with you 100%. ( you can see by how much and what I highlighted).
Here is a related beef ( yikes, yes, pun intended) of mine( especially to the message of food as an inconvenience):
Now the word “hunger” is being replaced by “ food noise” by the weight loss injectable industry.
Well, that is NOT good news for grocery stores and their suppliers but it won’t do humanity any favors either.