> But in Europe the regulators see it as their job to consider esoteric second order effects

That’s seems like a thing I want a regulator to do. A regulator making decisions only on first order effects seems doomed to fail.

I have lived both in the US and two European countries. Food quality is not even on the same scale. So much better in Europe, you can’t even compare, no wonder life expectancy is higher.

Europe may get some things wrong, but in comparison to United States on food, they don’t, particularly eggs, chickens and baked goods, America allows to many substitutions for expediency (profit).