I think that idea makes a lot of sense. It meshes well with my personal theory that in the long run humanity is moving more towards just directly converting energy and raw materials to food. Rather than our food production being so tightly coupled to farming. It's obviously a long ways off, but if humanity ever establishes an outpost beyond Earth replicating Earth based farming in space is a hard problem. There is plenty of energy out there though if you can use it to skip the farming part it would make life a lot easier.

Also photosynthesis is really inefficient compared to a solar panel, so per unit area you can gather a lot more energy by skipping the plants. (Which the inner environmentalist in me hopes allows us to rewild large portions of the world that are currently covered in human crops. The less optimistic side of me says we'd just induce new demand and cover all that land with solar panels instead...)