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Track Your Chicken's Whereabouts Before Eating It: With GPS & Face Recognition
National Public Radio ^ | February 24, 2019 | Martha Ann Overland

Posted on 02/24/2019 10:59:23 AM PST by CaliforniaCraftBeer

It's not as absurd as it sounds, says Robyn Metcalfe, a food historian who teaches at the University of Texas at Austin. A GPS tracker strapped to the leg of a chicken, says Metcalfe, means "that people who potentially will buy that chicken will know every step that that chicken has taken." ZhongAn Online, a Chinese insurance company, has already outfitted more than a 100,000 chickens with trackers. The sensors upload information, such as how much exercise each chicken gets and what it ate. They are also working on facial-recognition technology so that consumers can one day make sure the organic chicken they saw on the farm is the same one that ends up on their plate.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food; Health/Medicine; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: chicken; facerecognition; gps; isthisreallychicken; respectchickensday
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1 posted on 02/24/2019 10:59:23 AM PST by CaliforniaCraftBeer
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To: CaliforniaCraftBeer

We do better strapping a tracker to Congress’ legs.


2 posted on 02/24/2019 11:08:21 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.S)
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To: bgill

I have a feeling we’d see things involving children that would make us throw up.

Not for all but for too many.

As for this whole GPS chicken thing :)

I couldn’t picture it being in my top 10,000 wants or needs.


3 posted on 02/24/2019 11:10:37 AM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: CaliforniaCraftBeer

So the goobermint is going to require all chickens in supermarkets to still have their faces attached so the required goobermint $75 GPS tracker can verify the identity of your $80 chicken dinner.

I prefer my KFC chicken dinners not to be staring at me when I open the book thank you.


4 posted on 02/24/2019 11:10:47 AM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: CaliforniaCraftBeer

“It’s not as absurd as it sounds, says Robyn Metcalfe”

Yes, Robyn. It is.


5 posted on 02/24/2019 11:11:06 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: CaliforniaCraftBeer

That will answer once and for all why it crossed the road.


6 posted on 02/24/2019 11:12:20 AM PST by mombonn (God is looking for spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.)
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To: CaliforniaCraftBeer

Colin the Chicken from Portlandia?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G__PVLB8Nm4


7 posted on 02/24/2019 11:16:57 AM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: CaliforniaCraftBeer

Colin? Is that you? (Obscure Portlandia reference....)


8 posted on 02/24/2019 11:17:16 AM PST by Donkey Odious ( Adapt, improvise, and overcome - now a motto for us all.)
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To: Menehune56

Great minds.....


9 posted on 02/24/2019 11:18:14 AM PST by Donkey Odious ( Adapt, improvise, and overcome - now a motto for us all.)
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To: CaliforniaCraftBeer

I think something like this was in the first season of Portlandia. A couple left their table at a restaurant because they wanted to go see the farm where their chicken would come from. Seemed ludicrous at the time but like so many other ludicrous things that were on TV first, it is now our reality.


10 posted on 02/24/2019 11:22:18 AM PST by SamAdams76
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To: mombonn

True, that age-old question would be answered! But we might find out our chicken was roadkill. Gross!


11 posted on 02/24/2019 11:23:07 AM PST by Heart of Georgia
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To: Donkey Odious

Someone should tell the dingbat that the feet are cut off when butchered.

How will a GPS tracker fare in a plucker? A deep fat fryer? Will it alert the chicken to NOT cross the road? Will the chickens use the tracker to file for divorce from the rooster?


12 posted on 02/24/2019 11:27:36 AM PST by oldasrocks
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To: CaliforniaCraftBeer

Why would this emerge in China?

Cuz Sooooooo much food there is counterfeit.

Yes, in many cases in China, the food is NOT food:

Beer, eggs and many others are synthesized with cheaper materials to fool the unwitting customer.

The only catch?

After some famous poisonings people start catching on. Then the fakers’ jobs are harder and they must up their game.

Where is Euro baby milk most lucrative?

In CHINA, cuz no Chinese person in their right mind entrusts their child’s life to another Chinese person.


13 posted on 02/24/2019 11:34:41 AM PST by gaijin
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To: CaliforniaCraftBeer

Chinese chicken bombs!

They’re attacking with General Tso’s Chicken!


14 posted on 02/24/2019 11:35:15 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: CaliforniaCraftBeer

“What it ate”

I had a Squadron Commander whose famous phrase for every screw-up was,

“How’d you like to be out there picking shit with the chickens!”

At least now, we could find them.


15 posted on 02/24/2019 11:39:22 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: CaliforniaCraftBeer

Mmm chicken.


16 posted on 02/24/2019 11:49:20 AM PST by EdnaMode
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To: CaliforniaCraftBeer

Can we name it, too?


17 posted on 02/24/2019 11:54:27 AM PST by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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To: Reno89519

Sure, Fried, Broiled, Baked, Nugget......


18 posted on 02/24/2019 11:56:57 AM PST by mad_as_he$$
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To: CaliforniaCraftBeer

Just downed some gizzards and hearts. That’s an awful lot of trackin’!


19 posted on 02/24/2019 11:58:10 AM PST by Libloather (Trivial Pursuit question - name the first female to lose TWO presidential elections!)
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To: CaliforniaCraftBeer
Here's a picture of that organic chicken that you had at that Chinese restaurant. Be sure to run facial recognition software on it.


20 posted on 02/24/2019 12:04:03 PM PST by PAR35
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