Your list is missing one key point, although it is alluded to between the lines: > American agriculture, like much of American industry, has optimised [a selec

Your list is missing one key point, although it is alluded to between the lines: > American agriculture, like much of American industry, has optimised [a select number of food items] for the highest possible production at the lowest possible prices. It should be a lot cheaper to eat healthy. The current market makes little economic sense: the prices do not reflect the resource intensity of producing meat vs the same amount of healthier plant-based foods (I'm not even arguing that we should all go vegetarian or vegan - there simply is a huge lack of leafy greens in the Western diets).