Washington DC is basically a police state right now. Troops all over the place and metro stations closed.
I guess it depends on where you're buying your food or what restaurants you're visiting. If you're buying your groceries at Walmart (yuck), you are probably buying crap goods that maybe at some point were handled by undocumented or mistreated workers. You're also "not paying enough" because of economies of scale. Same for restaurant chains. Luckily, there are places you can find locally sourced, organic grocers and restaurants, but in that case you're going to pay. Personally, I want to buy local, organic, and fresh, so I don't mind paying $5 for a bunch of organic red kale. But not everyone can afford to pay those types of prices, so they revert to the economies of scale produce and radioactive chicken breasts.
But this all goes back to the inflationary and cultural spiral we're on in this country. Some people can't afford good food because their real wages haven't increased over time, or they have 11 kids to support (which is dumb). Or they don't care about food in general and are fine with eating shit out of a trough. Not everyone is an obsessive foodie like me and has the ability to afford $5 kale, but we do need a larger renaissance than we already have of buying local and organic before costs become too high to do anything.
I think it's true almost independent of where you get your food.
Restaurants largely would not exist if not for immigrant workers, many of them with questionable documentation. And the food that is grown, that's also dependent on the same labor structures. Some Americans decry illegal and even legal immigrants, but everything from growing crops to raising livestock to meat packing to operating restaurants would be much more expensive without them.
You can't complain about minimum wage being too high, the presence of undocumented workers, and the price of food all at the same time -- that's just pure economic fantasy. One if not two of those factors needs to budge to address the others.
I also have to cast doubt on the idea that Americans cannot afford to buy decent food. This goes beyond the money Americans spend on video games, TV subscriptions, and avocado toast. The US is the most overweight country on the planet pretty much, so clearly it's not a question of quantity or access to any kind of food. Affording better food is going to be more expensive, surely. But every time someone decries organic food being elitist and expensive, I call b.s. All of India eats organic food. It's just called "food" there.
It's the non-organic food in America that's the freakazoid mutant that is created through heavy processing and the use of fossil fuel subsidies. So how is that somehow hundreds of millions of Indians manage to get by on their meager livelihoods eating organic food but the US thinks it's impossible? Questions must be asked here.