Expiration Dates?

[BDBopper]

Originally Posted by Morrigoon

Have you seen the price of cereal lately?

Yes I have. Ouch! We can thank the ethanol credits. Instead of corn going into cereal and other products it's going into fuel. Thus we now have a shortage of corn which results in more expensive products and less of them.I am not opposed to ethanol but it should be derived from something that isn't an ingredient in our food.

[blueerica]

Originally Posted by BDBopper

Yes I have. Ouch! We can thank the ethanol credits. Instead of corn going into cereal and other products it's going into fuel. Thus we now have a shortage of corn which results in more expensive products and less of them.I am not opposed to ethanol but it should be derived from something that isn't an ingredient in our food.

I figured that the bigger issue in terms of the cost of corn, etc, at least this year, was rising fuel costs and the floods in the Midwest. Damage to crops is being cited as why stock in ethanol has plummeted, though there are sources that cite ethanol being precisely the reason for high prices of foods. (I prefer to think it's always a storm of several events that cause most situations, especially this one, given the history of subsidies, government action, consolidation, etc, of the corn industry).

I do agree that others sources should be preferred, especially when there are crops, such as a kind of grass I can't remember that would have a higher yeild of ethanol, and would be easier to refine (it's pricey to refine corn into ethanol). If they were that hung up on corn, you could use the kernel for food and the rest could be.

Back on topic, I just noticed that the yogurt I just bought four days ago will expire in 4 more days. WTF? I think it'll still be good, but seriously...

[Morrigoon]

Originally Posted by BDBopper

Yes I have. Ouch! We can thank the ethanol credits. Instead of corn going into cereal and other products it's going into fuel. Thus we now have a shortage of corn which results in more expensive products and less of them.I am not opposed to ethanol but it should be derived from something that isn't an ingredient in our food.

I still think we'd be better off removing the import tariffs on sugar and "encouraging" companies to stop using corn syrup.

And maybe move towards a more general biodiesel fuel.