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Actually, the disadvantage might be more about how grossed out people might become if they realize how old some of the food on the shelves might be. Especially

Actually, the disadvantage might be more about how grossed out people might become if they realize how old some of the food on the shelves might be. Especially if they needed to also include the origination dates of each ingredient, recursively. E.g. The corn was been stored for 10 years in a silo, and this specific box of corn meal was in a warehouse for a quarter of a year. An extreme example, but there was a time when our country had too much corn in storage, which is why the public school lunch program and corn ethanol became programs to use all this extra corn. Not to mention corn syrups.

Joker_vD 2y ago
> the disadvantage might be more about how grossed out people might become if they realize how old some of the food on the shelves might be. Only if you've never knew that before? I mean, I guess that's true: I know that e.g. cereals and past can go for years if store properly but if you never knew that, it may shock you. But if for you whole life you've seen labels "Shelf time: 18 months" on various foodstuffs, that's just the piece of general ambient knowledge. > if they needed to also include the origination dates of each ingredient, recursively Well, this is ridiculous, so they are not required to do that although, of course, there are (self-)regulations on how old can the ingredients be for the manufactirers to be able to claim the shelf-life they want to claim.