Why are Americans poisoning themselves?

[Zippy6]

I had my first pack of sour patch kids in the UK recently. No idea if it's the same recipe here but they just tasted like Rowntree's Fruit Pastilles to me, maybe somewhere between them and jelly babies. Overpriced too.

For the wider answer to why American food is full of crap, the answer is money, and a government (on both sides of the political spectrum) that has enabled the corporations to keep using the same garbage for decades.