I was raised on a farm and experienced the work involved ( we grew all our own food - garden to livestock ) and if it were not for industrial scale farming and food processing a significant percentage of our population would be out working the fields as in the "good old days" instead of sipping lattes  .-)

The negative side is that e.g. fruits get picked too early before fully sun ripe, in order to withstand packaging and transport. Then there are consumers who select by appearance only - thus the polished apples .. And fruits and veggies get genetically selected for appearance instead of flavor. We still maintain a garden for fresh lettuce, real ripe tomatoes.

In Canada we are luck as we have limitless farm land - not so in much of the rest of the world - which we feed by exsporting grain & corn. And I have experienced starvation - the real thing in Eastern Europe. Canada is/was safely removed from such realities - and failed Third World overpopulated ecosystems.