Not generally. It mainly gets complex when the latter side wants to deny the harm. Then it's an ocean of motivated reasoning and endless arguments. We still have people arguing today that American slavery was good for the slaves.
It’s such a rabbit hole, who should know best?
Not true. You raising the demand of a good enables the producers to employ economies of scale thus making food less expensive for all.
As to "Who should know best?" that's exactly what we're paying our politicians to be on top of.
We can start with the internet! :)