I just saw something rather sobering. You know those best before dates on a lot of packaged foods? They were originally designed to help stores rotate stock. They have nothing to do with food spoilage. Eventually a lot of that food to the tune of 78 million tons a year winds up in landfills because people won't buy or use it past the date. In a country where millions of people go hungry every day. Now food manufacturers are going to stop putting these dates on all but a few foods where spoilage is a health issue. Probably won't help feed any more people, but might add a few pennies to the bottom line of food retailers.
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