Submitted 3 weeks ago by artifex@piefed.social to technology@lemmy.world
New packaging can warn you when meat has spoiled – Sciworthy
Scientists designed color-changing carbon dot biosensors that can detect spoiled meat in sealed packages in real-time, just in case you don’t trust the sniff-test.
Won’t that affect Walmarts profits? 🙃
Don’t buy at Wallmart
Guy you can’t say that! Won’t you think of the poor CEO?
options here are 1 corporation that owns a castle and got his balls tickled for decades long price fixing
and walmarts… there is no good options to shop for food until they are removed from the planet
Pictured is meat with Kirkland branding, which is Costco’s in-house brand. Better place to shop than walmart already
3 Ribeyes are currently $67 there. You cracked out? Lol
10% off sticker goes brrr
The indicator turns into a “manager’s special”, no need to pay an employee to slap them on anymore
They’re going to make this way too sensitive so people throw away even more food and effective prices get driven up. I guarantee it
After they are legally mandated to use it because selling spoiled meat is profitable.
As a negative control, they also prepared an identical sealed tray containing only a wet sponge and the biosensor, but no meat. They observed that the biosensors in the pork and mutton trays turned bright yellow after 24 hours, while the one in the beef tray took 36 hours. In contrast, the control biosensor showed no detectable change.
That’s so cool, meat is still gross, but this is unambiguously a fantastic thing for humanity. If it’s actually used, I’d have to imagine the less reliable yet ass covering legal expiration date sticker will always be cheaper. Hope this becomes the new mandated standard, innovations are meaningless in the face of uncaring capitalistism.
I’ve had a number of occasions where I purchased meat and it was spoiled before the expiration date. At this point, I’m sick of putting my trust in big corporations and am trying to buy more foods produced locally.
No matter where you buy it, expiration dates are only a general guide, and more of a “date of manufacture” note than anything. We evolved to detect potential food that has gone bad. Trust your senses. Look and smell should be enough to know what’s actually gone bad (which is usually past the “expiration” date). You can use something like this as a better guide for when food will actually go bad, but, again, trust your senses.
Where the hell are you buying meat? A friggin’ flea market? BS.
I was buying it at Kroger, but got tired of meat being expired the first day I got it home, long before the expiration date. Now I buy from a rancher down the road. Re-reading my comment, it may have been unclear that I’m buying local to get better quality than I can get from big corporations.
All meat is spoiled living animal tissues.
Do you live on a dump?
These days the whole planet is a dump unfortunately.
I’ve got a fairly reliable tool that does the same, I keep it in the middle of my face
Anosmia is more common than you might think. A lot of stuff that seems silly on the face of it is hella useful for people with disabilities.
Noses do seem silly on the face of anosmics.
I have an extremely simple solution for this made-up problem : Just don’t eat meat 🤷🏻♀️
What are you, a tiger ? No ? Then why do you put yourself through this, when it only makes you sicker the more you do it ?
Humans are not herbivores. There are a lot of good social and ethical reasons to not eat meat, this is not one of them.
Humans may not be obligate herbivores ; nonetheless eating meat invariably hurts us in the short and long term.
Meet is like alcohol, you can get your calories from booze ; but why would you inflict that upon yourself ?
Eating meat is only deleterious. You may be able to stave off the visible consequences for a while, but make no mistake, it is eating you from the inside.
We were not meant to feed upon murder.
Shut up.
Average Americans will never see this. This comes at a time when regulations are being removed and meat packers are shooting up beef with red die to make it not look bad and rotten fish is being treated with CO and dies to be sold as fresh fish…
cv_octavio@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago
Cool cool.
leans forward
Now, can it also not persist in the environment for 1000 years after the thing it was packaging has been unpackaged?
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The Dow is over 50,000
cv_octavio@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago
But what does the scouter say about his power level, Vegeta?
leans forwarder
Huh Vegeta?! What’s it say!?
Abrinoxus@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
haha thats the new fresh thoughtterminating sequence i love it
MBech@feddit.dk 2 weeks ago
Sure, but only if it instead gives people a type of incurable cancer in about 30 years.