[dpatru]

Free markets mean that other sellers are free to compete. This is why food, an essential good, is generally cheap. Any seller of food can charge an arbitrarily high price but cannot exclude competing sellers.

[knightofmars]

In the US, food is generally cheap because significant portions of what we eat are heavily subsidized by the government.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_subsidy#United_St...