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  • Industrial food production allows roughly 1-2% of workers to grow food for the other 98%. It is basically the foundation of modern civilization. It allows almost all persons, the majority of regions, even nations to be net importers of food either temporarily due to mischance or permanently due to specialization.

    Taking this away would collapse modern civilization as effectively as if you literally nuked everyone with the death toll being similar. Worse people don’t react well to starving to death so the rest would probably mostly kill each other other ways.

    The medieval society that emerged would produce little art or science but lots of potatoes and grains to support the much smaller total population.