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Tuesday, November 16. aoio | The Red a Black
Product’s
sell-by date
can deceive
By KELSEY BYRD
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Though some fuzzy things are
cute, hairy food is not one of
them.
Most food products in stores
come with a sell-by date, but Judy
Harrison, a professor and exten
sion foods specialist at the
University, said those dates can
be misleading.
•‘People think that dates on
packages have to do with the
safety of the food, and they really
don’t,” Harrison said. “They are
there for quality purposes. There
are really only a couple of foods
that are required by law [to pro
vide a sell-by date], and that’s
infant formula and some types of
baby food.”
Baby food is required by law to
have a date because the growth
of the infant is so crucial, Harrison
said. The food must be used by
the date on the package.
“So basically there are sell-by
dates, which tell the stores how
long to display a product for sale,
and a consumer would want to
buy that product before that sale
by date expires,” Harrison said.
“And then there is use-by date
which is the last date recom
mended for use of the product,
and still have that product be at
the peak quality."
Harrison stressed the fact that
for packaged foods, the date does
not mean the food is bad alter
the package date has passed.
“So just because a product is
past its use-by date doesn’t nec
essarily mean ’Oh today that
product isn’t going to be safe any
more.’ It simply means that it
may not be as good of quality as
it was before that date passed.”
Harrison said.
Most foods have different dates
on the packages, but anything
that is fresh has specific things to
look for.
“I’ve been drinking milk like a
month after the sell-by date
before,” said Amonae Dabbs-
Brown, a wildlife major from
Marietta. “I can’t drink the stuff
fast enough before the date.”
Harrison says dairy products
are fine up to seven days after the
sell-by date, but once it starts to
smell rancid, it’s time to throw it
out.
“Something on the small
amount of cheese you would have
at home, you probably want to go
ahead and discard it if it’s moldy,”
she said. “Once a product starts
to mold, it’s not going to taste
very good anyway so its probably
time to get new cheese or bread.”
Harrison said fresh produce
has very specific ways to tell the
produce is going bad, but added
those same requirements can be
used as a general rule for check
ing food.
“When you see wilting, mold
growth, sliminess those are all
visible signs of spoilage and visi
ble signs of quality loss,” Harrison
said. “You would not want to use
the product at that point.”
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a University graduate Don Brawley’s company helps grieving customers by giving them
a chance to incorporate a deceased loved one’s ashes into an artificial reef system.
Graduate creates reefs from ashes
By MICHAEL PROCHASKA
The Red & Black
You could call it a paradox to die and be a part
of something that fosters life, but University gradu
ate Don Brawley calls it a service. He co-founded
Eternal Reefs —a company memorializing loved
ones by molding their remains in artificial reefs.
It didn’t take much for the avid scuba-diver and
college student to protect the rainforests of the
sea. Brawley developed “reef balls” in the mid-1980s
out of common sense.
“For the most part, if you wanted to build artifi
cial reefs, people would just dump tires or junk cars
and things like that,” he said. “The way we looked
at that is by putting those items in the ocean, that’s
just trash in the ocean.”
Brawley and his University roommates had a
much more effective alternative to restore reef sys
tems. By using natural materials to further the
propagation of microorganisms and a concrete cast
to withstand tidal currents, the Reef Ball
Development Group and Reef Ball Foundation can
preserve marine environments.
“The ocean is like a nutrient-rich desert,"
Brawley said. “There’s lots of food in the water but
it’s sand on the bottom. By putting in these reefs,
we essentially create an underwater oasis for all
these little spouts of life to start to grow.”
But the artificial reefs which range in price
from about $2,500 to $6,500 provide more than a
habitat for turtles and fish. Every month, Brawley
solemnly steers a charter boat bearing mourning
strangers. While passengers nibble on snacks and
sip bottled water, Brawley hands out fresh flowers
and a miniature “tribute reef," slightly smaller than
a soccer ball. As the boat rests silently still above a
grave, Brawley begins to read a short passage from
a speech by President John F. Kennedy, titled “The
Sea”
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to the sea ... We are going back from whence we
came,” he tells a somber crowd, empathizing with
its grief.
It has been more than 10 years since Brawley’s
father-in-law, Carleton Palmer,, went back to the
sea.
Palmer was the real founder of Eternal Reefs. In
1998, after Palmer was diagnosed with cancer, he
had dinner with Brawley to ask for a service he
couldn’t receive anywhere else.
“He said, ‘You know Don, I got a favor to ask
you,”' Brawley said. “He said he wanted to spend
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going on. And I never did think much about it at
the time, but unfortunately he had cancer and he
passed away two months later.”
At the service, the fUneral director walked up to
Brawley and handed him Palmer’s remains.
“We got the remains and I put them on the shelf
like many people when they get remains,” he said.
Then Brawley was asked to do a project in
Sarasota, Fla., and that’s when he remembered
what to do.
“We went down there and we added the remains
into the casting process,” he said. “So many folks
who choose cremation think they’re always told to
scatter the remains. Well, families don’t feel right
about that. They feel like they’re not giving their
loving respect or due. They feel like they’re throw
ing their loved ones away by scattering them.”
Palmer’s ashes were the first to be molded in a
nautical urn.
“Really we’re in the closure business for the
families who have had loved ones lost, and we’re
facilitating it with the memorial reef,” Brawley said.
“These are individuals, families and people who
love the ocean for one reason or the other and have
their final resting place be the ocean.”
Eternal Reefs strives for solace in each crema
tion memorial. Families are given a range of options
to personalize their memorial. All reefs come with
bronze plaques for custom-made epitaphs. Through
the use of bronze, the plaque can resist seawater
corrosion and remain intact for centuries. The arti
ficial reef itself can last more than 500 years.
Families can also place handprints or cherished
items in the wet concrete.
“I've seen them put wedding rings in the top
portion [of the reef],” Brawley said. “Sometimes
they’ll wait until the concrete hardens up a little bit
and make little divots, like you would write in a
concrete driveway.”
Some common tokens of love include police and
fireman badges, military mementos and letters.
Brawley said one customer asked for Gumby and
Pokey figures to decorate the reef.
Even though Brawley said his business is about
helping families find closure, Eternal Reefs imparts
a rare, vast meaning to death by giving people the
opportunity to make a difference after life.
“The individual is creating a habitat for life to
occur,” Brawley said.
It may be dark and cold 60 feet under, but
Palmer and hundreds of others are a piece of a
flourishing ecosystem.
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Students avoid strang
ers and don’t hitchhike.
But when it comes to
climbing into the back
seat of a stranger's taxi,
most never think twice.
Students may reconsid
er, however, after the
recent arrest of one
Athens cab driver.
Five Stars Taxi Cab
driver Billy Joe Rut, 54,
was charged with open
container, driving on a sus
pended license and failure
to display a valid taxi per
mit at 2:37 a.m. Monday. A
passenger was in Rirr’s
cab at the time of his
arrest, according to an
Athens-Clarke County
Police report.
State Patrol Officers
also arrested Furr on
charges of involvement in
a hit-and-run, the report
states.
Officers approached
Rut after his taxi, which
matched the description of
a vehicle involved in an
earlier hit-and-run, pulled
into a parking lot on
Oglethorpe Avenue.
Furr was never able to
produce a driver’s license
and a check revealed it
had been suspended for
failure to appear, accord
ing to the report.
A State Patrol officer
then tried to locate Rut’s
permit to operate a taxi,
but found none.
However, he did find a
bottle of Mike’s Hard
Lemonade “at the base of
the driver’s seat,” accord
ing to the report.
Furr was transported to
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SGA: Some
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“I think the resolution
serves as a blanket state
ment imposing one opinion
for the entire University,”
he said. “We believe it’s hin
dering free speech at the
University of Georgia.”
Though he said he isn’t
against SGA being involved
in political matters,
Christensen said passing a
resolution supporting
Israel would make SGA
inherently' unfair to AJP
“It automatically makes
the SGA biased and preju
diced,” Christensen said.
If the resolution is on
the agenda for today's
meeting, the group will
attend and maybe give
speeches, he said. AJP has
also been circulating a peti
tion among students
against the resolution.
Thompson reminded
that a resolution is just a
policy statement from
SGA.
“They’re not rules,” he
said. “Our job is to make a
statement and then try to
change rules.”