No, actually. Food is not price controlled to any similar degree as housing.
Nobody is going in to restaurants and telling them that they must sell a hamburger for less than 15$.
No one is going in to walmart and forcing them to sell cereal for less than 5$ a box.
Compared to rent and housing, it is way way way more free of a market, regardless of any negligible government regulations that you can find that are in no way on the same scale as rent control.
[..] Economists say those trends, coupled with low commodity prices, caused farmers’ share of consumer food spending to fall 1.2 cents in 2016, reaching the lowest point, adjusted for inflation, since USDA began the measure in 1993. (It's the latest year for which data is available).[..]
Nobody is going in to restaurants and telling them that they must sell a hamburger for less than 15$.
No one is going in to walmart and forcing them to sell cereal for less than 5$ a box.
Compared to rent and housing, it is way way way more free of a market, regardless of any negligible government regulations that you can find that are in no way on the same scale as rent control.