Take on the Genetically mutated water

Last weekend at a picnic a friend offered me a vitamin water. Now obviously Vitamin water 's appeal is that it tastes water down and stale so it's like drinking a Gatorade filtered through a used athletic sock so I am not going to complain about taste..

What I can bitch about in this case is when i noticed the sell-by-date which was December 2010 while it is now June 2011. Now I cannot imagine that anybody would possibly die from drinking this sugared urine but it bears the question whether there is any logic to these sell-by-dates. You know this sportsdrink is some laboratory designed genetically mutated version of water and like Velveeta cheese or I can't Believe it's not butter it doesn't seem to have any organic elements which should ever go bad.
So although I'm all for sell-by-dates and I often will not even drink something within 3 days of it's sell by date there have to different rules to organic and non-organic items.
For example any of this lab designed thirst quenchers should probably be held to the same lifetime standards as its plastic bottle container..

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