{"id":418,"date":"2017-03-20T16:48:27","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T20:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/?p=418"},"modified":"2017-03-20T16:48:27","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T20:48:27","slug":"from-the-web-we-shouldnt-need-food-companies-to-tell-us-when-to-toss-the-produce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/03\/20\/from-the-web-we-shouldnt-need-food-companies-to-tell-us-when-to-toss-the-produce\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Web: We Shouldn&#8217;t Need Food Companies to Tell Us When to Toss the Produce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-419\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-17-at-11.59.57-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1228\" height=\"726\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-17-at-11.59.57-AM.png 1228w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-17-at-11.59.57-AM-300x177.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-17-at-11.59.57-AM-768x454.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-17-at-11.59.57-AM-1024x605.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-17-at-11.59.57-AM-500x296.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cUse by\u201d labels on food in the US are to be simplified after the food industry agreed to restrict what can be put on packaging.\u00a0For decades confusion over the meaning of the words and dates on food packaging has been a leading cause of household food waste. The sheer variety of terms \u2013 best by, best before, sell by, use by, use or freeze by, to name a few \u2013 is boggling.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sustainable-business\/2017\/mar\/03\/food-waste-america-companies-consumers-labels\">Learn more<\/a><\/strong> <em>(via The Guardian)<\/em> &gt;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cUse by\u201d labels on food in the US are to be simplified after the food industry agreed to restrict what can be put on packaging.\u00a0For decades confusion over the meaning of the words and dates on food packaging has been a leading cause of household food waste. The sheer variety of terms \u2013 best by, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/03\/20\/from-the-web-we-shouldnt-need-food-companies-to-tell-us-when-to-toss-the-produce\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From the Web: We Shouldn&#8217;t Need Food Companies to Tell Us When to Toss the Produce&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3919,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[221,427000],"tags":[4433],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-from-the-web","tag-sustainability"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8b9n0-6K","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}