01-11-2019, 10:50 AM
"Does retail-packaged meat come with the cow's resume or pedigree? How would you possibly know what sort of life a cow had?"
This is coming with blockchain technology, though only aggregate information for things like hamburger and sausage. Some of the uber fancy restaurants can already tell you what time of day the fish was caught, including the name of the boat and individual fisherman. Individual cows and in some cases meat sheep and goats are already tracked with a surprising amount of back story because of mad cow and scrapie prevention measures.
This is coming with blockchain technology, though only aggregate information for things like hamburger and sausage. Some of the uber fancy restaurants can already tell you what time of day the fish was caught, including the name of the boat and individual fisherman. Individual cows and in some cases meat sheep and goats are already tracked with a surprising amount of back story because of mad cow and scrapie prevention measures.