Food expiration dates don’t mean what you think - Carolyn Beans
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Countries around the world waste huge amounts of food every year: roughly a fifth of food items in the US are tossed because consumers aren’t sure how to interpret expiration labels. But most groceries are still perfectly safe to eat past their expiration dates. If the dates on our food don’t tell us that something’s gone bad, what do they tell us? Carolyn Beans shares how to prevent food waste.
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- Educator Carolyn Beans
- Director Anton Bogaty
- Narrator Alexandra Panzer
- Music Salil Bhayani, cAMP Studio
- Sound Designer Chengqing Zhu, cAMP Studio
- Director of Production Gerta Xhelo
- Producer Sazia Afrin
- Editorial Director Alex Rosenthal
- Editorial Producer Dan Kwartler
- Script Editor Carolyn Beans
- Fact-Checker Charles Wallace
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Food expiration dates don't mean what you think
I think food waste is very harmful to the environment in the long run. When food waste starts to decompose, it produces methane gas which can form greenhouse gases that trigger global warming. The amount of waste and methane gas that then accumulates can also trigger a waste explosion disaster. The impact of food waste is very detrimental to the sustainability of life. Food waste can damage ecosystems, waste petroleum and waste land.
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