Seymour Flops
Diamond Member
I like NPR as I have stated before. I often hear stories in my car and then go look the transcript up to talk about them here.
The basic premise of this one is that expiration dates are arbitrary, not related to food safety, vary from state to state, and lead to a lot of food waste. I think that is probably very valid. Especially regulations forbidding the donation of food to food banks if it is one day after the "best by," date or whatever.
But I'm concerned about the timing of the story in the context of the Biden administration. I like NPR but it is very liberal, and so their stories have to be analyzed for the story behind the story so to speak.
I'm trying to remember what other administration ever felt the need to warn us about impending food shortages. Biden said that food shortages "gonna be real," and we've already seen it with baby formula. As far as I know, the last time Americans went hungry because of food shortages was the Civil War, when troops burned crops on southern farms. We had hunger during the depression, but that was at the time that government was destroying food in an attempt to make farming more profitable, so it wasn't about shortages.
Could it be that the left knows that its Soviet style policies have always led to food shortages, and they are now trying to prepare us for a time in which we will have not choice but eat older food, since replacement food will not be readily available? I agree that the expiration dates don't makes sense a lot of time, but I've gotten used to eating fresh food throughout the pre-Biden era.
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