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To be fair, the costs are just less hidden in the swiss model.

If you do internal subsidies (the EU/US approach) instead of tariffs on imports, then a fraction of your taxes gets diverted to farmers instead.

Sadly this whole issue is difficult to side-step completely because if you do neither subsidies nor tariffs, your local food industry just dies and that is a really undesirable outcome if you want to avoid famines.

I love going to France, and really like their quality approach. But try going to Germany or Austria. Basically the same price or more expensive at the same or worse quality.

It's more of an excuse for a drive for me tbh. When I compare prices between DE and CH now, the difference isn't that big anymore.

DE is still cheaper for some products but not by much. I have no idea how do they manage there since salaries are like 2x less.