Canada isn’t necessarily great either, and European grocery stores are full of “foods” containing the same cursed ingredients. There’s a big difference in volume of crap though, and alternatives are much more accessible than they are in the US.
“Evidentiary basis” ≠ “consumption declines”, greaselords.
It’s just become a lot more expensive than it used to be, and the environmentalist/health aspects of it might play a small part in this, too.
Damn kids worrying about the environment… What a bunch of losers trying to be hip.
Not only that: it’s also super inefficient, orders of magnitude more compute-intensive