100% uncontaminated
IT’S PINK! It’s definitely contaminated. Maybe it’s got other things things you want in there, but that’s still contamination. It’s not pure salt.
One upside is that 250mil years ago nobody threw plastic in the ocean, so not microplastics unlike seasalt
It’s in a plastic container and was processed by heavy machinery. There’s definitely micro plastics and other fine particle contamination in there.
Looks like it’s in a plastic container
Was it sold as pure NaCl? Probably not…
Sea salt is actually KCl
Idiots will throw this in the trash. Businesses will as well.
I watch a couple of dude’s at Lowe’s uncapping and draining several hundred bottles of Powerade because they were past expiration. Working retail really got me educated in all the waste in our system. (Someone will scream, “caPiTaLisM!”. No, it’s a legal/liability thing. And it’s dumb.)
Purchase a thing. Any thing. See all the plastic you brought home? There was 2-3x that much in delivering it to you before you took it off the shelf.
Been wanting to start a comm on “stop buying shit, here are alternatives”. Taking votes for names. I could spend a week posting things I’ve actually done.
EDIT: Should note: Trashing goods = tax write off. That’s a money saver vs. “donated” or “sold at discount”. Yes, it’s cheaper to throw shit away than to sell, even at a deep discount.
My understanding is that there is no actual reason to think companies could be sued or get in legal trouble for donating expired goods, despite the common misconception otherwise.
When I worked at a Hollywood Video (so a long time ago) we were told we had to discard expired concession products because of chargebacks. Part of the chargeback process was destroying the product because the business was getting credit for it from the supplier/manufacturer.
I believe if you process it as a chargeback and donate it, you’d be committing fraud.
You’d also be committing something nice for hungry people. Depends on what you want to commit to honestly
Yep, and you could shoplift food from a grocery store and donate it, or cheat on your taxes and use the extra money to buy food to donate, or donate the money directly.
Personally, I think it would be better to change the system. Perhaps a program that incentivizes a business to donate the food instead of charging it back or incentivizing the supplier/manufacturer to require anything usable they get a chargeback for from a business be donated or destroyed.
People shouldn’t have to forced to choose between doing the moral thing or the legal thing.
It is abundantly clear that the majority US doesn’t want that, but want a corporate hellscape that makes sure the next generations suffer until finally our species end in a very embarrassing manner with two rich guys celebrating victory over all other humans before succumbing.
It is abundantly clear that the majority US doesn’t want that
I disagree with you here. In part because humans have a natural sense of self preservation and this is counter to that.
I actually think it’s far simpler; I think the divide between the ruling class (politicians) and the working class (those that have to work to live) has grown too far. People are tired of feeling like they are not being represented or listened to and feel pushed to extreme action.
The ultra-wealthy benefit from the current system and use their means to keep the working class fighting against each other and the ruling class distracted from their actual constituents.
For some stupid shit reason, there is a legal limit for “best before” dates like that. You are not allowed to put a best before date that is more than IIRC three years after packaging.
Salt is the number one victim of this stupidity by far, if packaged properly it will still be usable salt a million years in the future.
But some other food items are definitely good after more than three years. Some tinned goods, or rice, pasta, dried legumes, honey, sugar.
That’s why EU or at least Finland at least used to have separate labels; “best before” and “use by”.
One was like “this might lose some quality after the date” and one is “please don’t eat it, it might be dangerous”.
Although the latter was still always erred on the sage side. Whereas grandma dismissed the bunch and just sliced the mold off the cheese and ate what was underneath. And it wasn’t blue cheese — originally.
And rue the day if I threw out old milk instead of letting her make some home made cheese or smth.
