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Bottom line is you are watching a zombie show and trying to have a logical debate about canned food. Sad!
Normally, you'd be right. It would be nitpicking of the worst kind to make a big deal out of how people get enough food in a show about the zombie apocalypse.
The problem is that the show itself has made food a big deal - a critical plot point -- throughout the entire series. Season 2 was about how great Herschel's farm was because it had food. Seasons 3-4 had Rick becoming a farmer in the prison, and trying to raise pigs that died from the flue. Season 5 had the survivors at Terminus turn to cannibalism, and Rick's own was group on its last legs because of lack of food until they found Alexandria. Seasons 6-8 were propelled by the Saviors taking a food tribute from the surrounding communities, which eventually led to a rebellion. A kid was killed over a single missing watermelon!
In fact, the entire drama of the first half of this very season was based upon there not being enough food to feed everyone. The Saviors were starving because the ground at the factory could not support crops, then food shipments were disappearing, the bridge had to be built to transport the food, etc.. If there was plenty of canned shit, or people could survive on the occasional worm, none of that would have been a big deal or made any sense at all.
So it's not that I'm making a big deal out of where food comes from, and how to get enough. It's that the show itself has made a big deal out of it.