We've never had a "free market" approach in this country, all of our rhetoric about it notwithstanding. It has always been a very controlled market with lots of taxpayer money going to the corporate fat cats at the expense of the taxpayers, and corporate lobbyists calling all of the shots. That's why our food is so crappy.

JtS' father, step mother, and uncle came to visit us recently. They brought some food with them. I was reading the ingredient lists on the packages, and the ingredients in the Canadian food was mostly food, and the ingredient lists were fairly short. Comparable food products in the US had ingredient lists that were four to five times as long and the ingredients listed were mostly chemicals. Naturally, the Canadian food tasted a lot better.