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Not sure it's a useful question - whether it's financially profitable or not, harm is harm. Doing harm for political or personal reasons is no better than doing so for profit.
There's probably no industry that doesn't cause some harm. Certainly we can all agree that career politicians, teachers, and surgeons all get paid and cause harm to some.
So, if someone leaves food to rot in the fields, it of no concern whether there are institutional incentives that explain this action? We should just focus on the act itself, and not examine what forces produce it? And the issue is not whether some are harmed, but whether the total net effect is harmful.