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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone give some examples of how the food in America is supposedly so much worse?  I have travelled and lived abroad and overall I just don’t see that.  We have a lot of choice in the US that in many ways makes it easier to have good food.  I don’t choose to eat at places like McDonald’s.  Certainly some countries have better options for certain things — eg Irish butter versus American butter, Chilean mollusks versus American.  But for instance Chile is so meat/fish focused it’s hard to find nice salads and vegetables.  That’s true in many countries in Europe as well.  In many countries it’s hard to find nice fresh dairy.  I’ve been to some countries where the restaurant food was even more salty than American restaurant food, which amazed me as I find American restaurant food way too salty.    
I do think that because other countries have fewer choices for food they tend to serve more stuff that is local and in season.  But it’s  pretty easy to eat that way here too, if you give up variety.

Different issue but I’m also not impressed with OP being impressed by Singapore and Thailand.  That’s like trump raving about the airports in Dubai.  That efficiency is built in the back of a lot of misery.  No thank you.

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“As a direct result of the EPA’s laissez-faire regulatory approach, in 2019 the U.S. used over 70 agricultural pesticides that were banned in the European Union, amounting to 322 million pounds used each year. That means over a quarter of all U.S. agricultural pesticide use was from pesticides that all EU member states have prohibited. And with more recent bans on pesticides like chlorothalonil and the EU’s new farm-to-fork strategy which aims to cut pesticide use in half by 2030, that regulatory disparity is growing significantly by the year.
It is not just Europe that is embracing these prohibitions. The U.S. uses 26 and 40 million pounds of pesticides that Brazil and China have banned or are phasing out, respectively. India is currently considering banning 27 highly hazardous pesticides, like atrazine, 2,4-D, and acephate, which the U.S. uses over 100 million pounds of each year. Atrazine is a known endocrine disruptor linked to fertility problems; 2,4-D is associated with certain cancers and birth defects in children; and acephate is a known neurotoxin in the same class of chemicals as those developed for use as nerve agents in World War II.”

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-the-epas-lax-regulation-of-dangerous-pesticides-is-hurting-public-health-and-the-us-economy/

If you read that article, we are just about the only country permitting more questionable pesticides, while other countries are tightening their use. Plus there is a far greater abundance and  spectrum of emulsifiers (to preserve foods) and artificial sweeteners in play in the US. Not to mention, we have very low standards for raising animals for meat/dairy production.

And the cherry on top is the added sugar and other additives that get added into the food supply…and sure, individuals can avoid to a certain extent lower quality processed foods, but that is what is getting served up in food cafeterias around the country to our children, from pre-k through college.
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