As a consumer rep, the first thing I tend to do when I go places is go into grocery stores and check prices. Certainly in the U.S. I think some of the prices are lower. Some figures came out recently that actually said some countries in Europe--and the one that surprised me was the U.K.--actually spend less of their disposable income on food than we do.
Certainly our food is very affordable good-quality food. The stuff that tends to be expensive is the over-processed stuff that people are better not to be eating anyway. If you're looking at fruits and vegetables and meat, they compare very well with the rest of the world, especially in the food safety and quality that's built into them, and the environmental protection that you know is there when they're being grown.