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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We do better strapping a tracker to Congress’ legs.
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.
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.
“It’s not as absurd as it sounds, says Robyn Metcalfe”
Yes, Robyn. It is.
That will answer once and for all why it crossed the road.
Colin the Chicken from Portlandia?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G__PVLB8Nm4
Colin? Is that you? (Obscure Portlandia reference....)
Great minds.....
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.
True, that age-old question would be answered! But we might find out our chicken was roadkill. Gross!
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?
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.
Chinese chicken bombs!
They’re attacking with General Tso’s Chicken!
“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.
Mmm chicken.
Can we name it, too?
Sure, Fried, Broiled, Baked, Nugget......
Just downed some gizzards and hearts. That’s an awful lot of trackin’!
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