THE DREADED
SELL-BY DATE
People nowadays seem
Completely paranoid
About hygiene and
cleanliness
And struggle to avoid
…
Germs in any shape or
size
But what does
aggravate
Is the slavish
following
Of the sell-by date.
Our parents didn’t
“google”
Or go on line, they just
relied
On their senses and
experience
For food that could be
tried.
Now people check all
food
For the sell by date
And if it’s only out
by a day
The dustbin is its
fate.
A supermarket can
throw away
Tons of edible food a
year.
No one can touch it –
It’s for landfill I
fear.
If so many resources
were not wasted,
Perhaps we would not
need
Expensive and
inefficient windmills
And light bulbs by
which we cannot read.
September 2011
