It sounds yucky, but officials think they've got the trick to get moms to feed expired but safe food to kids and adults alike — they've even got an app. It's called FoodKeeper and it is supposed to have a more accurate calculation of food expiration dates, even for baby food and eggs.
USDA provided a video in which one official explains, "Many products may have a sell-by date of say April 1 but they could be good in your pantry for another 12 or 18 months. And by throwing those out, what you're doing, is you're contributing to food waste in the United States." As an example, the video showed boxes of dried pasta.
I heard about this on Rush Limbaugh radio show.
10 comments:
(1) It's a correction. Human systems are imperfect. Everyone who can think for his or herself knows that and is unimpressed.
(2) I think maybe I've finally come upon a flaw in The God Delusion. Richard Dawkins is arguing that the bible is an awful source of morality because it (the Old Testament, anyway) is so chock full of immoral commands from God.
I think that misses the point, frankly. The rule to be derived from the Old Testament is not do-as-they-did, like commit rape and genocide.
The rule to be derived from the Old Testament is that it is righteous to do as God commands. And that is, of course, what the people in charge say that God commands. After all, that stuff was written by and for the one-percenters of their time.
None of this populist internet crap, baby!
(3) And so I sayeth unto thee, the God of the Internet hath commanded me to select all images of soup. So it is written. So shall it be done.
OK, let's start a challenge. Name something the government has not lied about...........................
Keep thinking. I got time.
Get out of our lives!
It wasn't that long ago that I found out that ketchup has a shelf life. I could of swore that it was good for a 1,000 years.
Imaginary headline: "Feds Bristle at Private Sector's Carbon Sequestration"
A problem with its own expiration date as innumeracy marches onward through higher education
Sweet Jumpin'... ! Yet another jobs program: now we pay people to say to us that other people we paid didn't know what the hell they were talking about when when they were saying stuff to us.
I say: Shut up, then, why dontcha.
And I say that as someone who always has been pretty darn savvy enough about food and when and how it expires etc.: It's been 45 years since I first cooked an entire, full, dinner meal, start to finish, for a whole number of people, and I've yet to food-poison anyone.
At the same time, I'd be stupid if I thought that food manufacturers wouldn't cheat if not forced into accountability. History cuts both ways: People both as individuals and as collections of individuals (i.e. corporate entities) tend to be stupid and careless, not to mention corner-cutters who also are overweening and blithe. It's a challenge, a conundrum, even an outright throwing down of a gauntlet, if you will. Innit?
So in other words, the FDA and required labels are useless? Well then, I think we have identified another area to cut from the federal budget.
In Seattle there are garbage inspectors who nose thru your trash and fine you for not composting. Logical next step: KITCHEN INSPECTORS!
A local family was awakened early Saturday morning at 2:00 a.m. by a peremptory knock on the door followed by loud banging and shouted orders to "open up" in the name of Good Nutrition and Mother Earth and The Children. Federal agents and federalized local law enforcement were assembled outside with a battering ram (hey, these things happen) and a team of trans-fat sniffing dogs. The family was sequested in their separate rooms, and not permitted any intra or extra communicative publications, while the home was searched over the course of the next five hours for Pre-Disposed Comestibles and other Unapproved Food Items. At the conclusion of the search, the children were removed and re-homed in a more suitable growing environment due to a wide variety of federal, state and local statutory and regulatory violations of the Food Laws. The adult household members have received a Notice of the Violation and Penalties and have half an hour from receipt thereof to file an appeal in person with the U.S. Human Environmental Agency Lobby (HEAL).
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