Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27217546-20170406164131/@comment-24652012-20170522220625

Or the crops can be destroyed by a plague of children.

Or the government can use high taxes to bankrupt farmers to steal their land (which they try to do all the time, mostly to build cities on them.)

Or most likely of all, people could simply waste the food because they want to eat something else, then wine as they resultantly starve to death.