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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I’ve eaten very good roadkilled venison...
Don’t laugh, squab is a delicacy more expensive than chicken in France
What next...the deer, elk, moose, and duck and turkey are going to be photographed and tagged..before I can shoot them?
That dog ain't gonna hunt!
Nah, they’ll make people wear cameras when they go hunting and turn over the recordings at the tagging station so they can make sure every move they make is politically correct, within preapproved boundaries, and done according to some rights group’s standards.
Will not happen...in my neck of the woods.
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