Dating Game: Demystifying Food Expiration Dates To Reduce Food Waste

Have you ever looked at milk in the fridge and saw it expired one day ago so you threw it away? Having food labels can make almost half of Americans waste their money and throw out lots of food that is still consumable. In the passage, “The Dating Game: Demystifying Food Expiration Dates To Reduce Food Waste” by Emily Broad Leib and “Food date labels might not mean what you think they mean” by Kristofer Husted, both consider the advantages and disadvantages of having food labels. Food labels have been around for years, while having some good outcomes and some terrible outcomes. However, since the food labeling has failed it brings up the topic, “Should the current system of putting date labels on food be changed? Food labels/labeling should be changed because it's making Americans waste their money and throw out the food that they need.

One reason food labels should be changed is, it confuses consumers if the date is best consumable or if the food is well-expired.Because of current food labeling it is confusing consumers more than 8/9 of consumers throw away their food after seeing the date.In the passage, “ The Dating Game: Demystifying Food Expiration Dates To Reduce Food Waste” This evidence shows the number of Americans who waste food. Leib states “Yet according to an industry report, “90% of consumers say they throw food away on this date because of safety concerns.” This shows that the article explains how just seeing the date can make consumers throw food away. This quote is important because it really shows how much consumers waste their money and food on just seeing a little date label on their yogurt container. Many people can still be perfectly fine after eating food that had a ‘best by’ date the day before. They will be fine because the best by date is just the creators opinion on what the food will be best consumable. These numbers of food waste support the claim that food labeling needs to be