The same could be said about the companies who created the COVID vaccine. And yet, in the risk/benefit analysis we came out way ahead. You might not be starving, but there are countries where the distaste for evil capitalist corporations is overshadowed by hunger. Additionally, genetic techniques are being democratized by the rapidly lowering cost. The barriers to entry are much lower now than ever. So It's not necessarily the big corporations keeping food biotech from the starving masses with their confiscatory pricing as much as it is the regulatory agencies. Fortunately as seen in the article summarized above, that barrier seems to be lowering as well.