If it gets too bad, that's how you end up with riots, local politicians dead, buildings torched, etc. Food riots are not something you fuck with.... If history has anything to say about that.

I don't think we've seen that scope here in the US... Yet. But given the number of guns, "it's a when, not an if" if the politicians allow extreme food scarcity to happen in a wide area.

Politicians allow? Not the business? The calls for government regulation by the same gun toteing people who constantly complain about big government is so confusing.

My senical take on food stamps has been one of politicians feeding the poor to prevent reality. In the US you are talking about 40+MM people who cannot afford to feed themselves. If half of them missed a few meals all of our other problems would disappear under the ensuing sea of shit.

Correct. It matters less how healthy/nutritious the food actually is, full bellies tend to keep revolutions at bay.

Yep. The Romans figured it out over 2000 years ago.

panem et circusensus (bread and circuses)

Is there a way in which the monopoly is causing food to be denied to individuals?

The way I see it is that any food desert either exists because it is not profitable or because nobody has taken the initiative to offer a profitable service. Obviously I could be wrong, but I have a hard time seeing how a megacorp is denying access to food.