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Montana uses Sell-By dates to artificially ban out-of-state milk.

They want to promote in-state business (dairy farmers).

Montana purposefully has short Sell-by diary dates, because it makes it prohibitive for an out-of-state dairy to transport their milk into Montana.

https://www.nrdc.org/bio/dana-gunders/how-montanas-sell-date...

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I hate this kind of mendacity. Wanting to protect their dairy industry is understandable, but perpetuating a fraud upon consumers is not the way to do it.

If you can't beat the competition, change the rules.

It's not a fraud. It's a higher standard of quality, that is protectionist and arguably unnecessary and wasteful.

I think they mean fraud in the classical use of the word rather than a strict legal statute meaning.

m-w.com an act of deceiving or misrepresenting

Unnecessary and wasteful is a good way to describe shipping out of state milk into a state that has so many cows of their own. Do you think those trucks all run on pixie farts?

>> Sell-by diary dates

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