Yeah, it's good practice to avoid US food in general, especially meat, which is truly horrid. Produce can be hit-and-miss. Dry goods aren't so bad, but I still prefer to buy from any other country.

I'm sorry but this is a false equivalency. Yes, American food has generally been trash quality-wise, but there is still a difference between under regulated and inspected, and NOT regulated or inspected.

Produce gets recalled far too often due to people getting sick after eating it.

What I don't know is: how many times has produce never made it to the shelf because of testing VS how many times produce gets recalled because a human consumer's body played the role of the FDA testing facility.

You know there's some pretty old people here, right? The average age of Lemmy users might be more of a close mark to try and focus on the growth of processed foods and sugar-laden things. Although any standards have to be better than the direction we're heading back towards.

I agree with the general point everyone has here, isolationism will hurt the policy makers and the companies in step with them. It will hurt a lot of us too, but so be it. Burn it down. The alternative is not acceptable.

So by all means, organize to ban US food imports, but you shouldn’t have been eating it to begin with.

Who says we are? Boycott movements started months ago...

See https://news.ubc.ca/2025/01/canada-food-flows/ and https://www.euronews.com/next/2025/02/24/new-buy-canadian-apps-released-as-boycott-of-us-goods-in-response-to-proposed-tariffs-grow and https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/12/i-feel-utter-anger-from-canada-to-europe-a-movement-to-boycott-us-goods-is-spreading for reference.