[jrussino]

To be fair, it's a bad title.

We should be able to skim the headlines and get an accurate impression of the news items of the moment.

This headline seems intentionally misleading. It should have been clear to the publisher that it would be interpreted this way. Intentionally inflammatory clickbait titles poison the information ecosystem.

(That being said - yes, commenting on something you have not read does as well!)

[SilasX]

Agreed. In this case, a better title would be "California replaces 'Sell by' Labels with 'Use by', Hoping to Cut Food Waste"

Still a simplification, but doesn't horribly mislead you into thinking it's a reckless policy.

[paleotrope]

How does this change affect food waste by consumers?

[SilasX]

For the reason the article gives: products would be labeled with the thing that actually matters for safely maximizing producing usage -- how long it's safe to actually use the product ("use by") -- rather than a cruder heuristic about when you should sell it, or vague language about when it's "best".