Should Humans Really Risk Colonizing Mars?

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Should humans really risk colonizing Mars? With all of the potential benefits of colonizing Mars, there are lots of challenges. Colonizing Mars is a horrible idea because there is no available food , gravity is very different and has the worst sandstorms in the solar system.
There is no available food to eat.The humans that go there will have to eat freeze dried foods along with dehydrated fruits and vegetables. Freeze dried cheese and powdered spices will also be part of what people eat, along with butter that has most of its moisture sucked out of it.People will have to eat foods like this because there is no oxygen for the plants be that there is only .13% oxygen and no water only ice that could be toxic if melted into water.But astronauts

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