Posted on 08/15/2019 5:52:14 AM PDT by BenLurkin
StartPage gave several results:
In response to food contamination scandals worldwide, retail giant Walmart is tackling food safety in the supply chain using blockchain technology. In 2016, it established the Walmart Food Safety Collaboration Center in Beijing and plans to invest $25 million over five years to research global food safety (Yiannas and Liu, 2017). Using IBM’s blockchain solution based on Hyperledger Fabric, Walmart has successfully completed two blockchain pilots: pork in China and mangoes in the Americas (IBM, 2017). With a farm-to- table approach, Walmart’s blockchain solution reduced time for tracking mango origins from seven days to 2.2 seconds and promoted greater transparency across Walmart’s food supply chain (Yiannas, 2017). IBM called it “complete end-to-end traceability”
Important note: This disease is harmless to humans.
I read the same article, but note-—
It was about Walmart CHINA—not USA. That is, pork SOLD in China uses the blockchain solution.
Frankly, I just do not want to eat meat grown, slaughtered and processed in any other country except the USA.
I’ll make exceptions for European cheeses, sardines and herring, German hams, and anything from Canada.
When I read a label on a food product and it says made/processed/canned in China, I do not buy.
Isn't that what the Chinese have always called "Losing the mandate from Heaven"?
True, BUT, our US producers could do a LOT more for themselves than any likely Country Of Origin Labeling legislation: They could take the bull by the horns (so to speak!), that is, be the tiniest bit self-reliant, imaginative, and aggressive in these matters, and go on a labeling and informational campaign of their own. Their own organizations would perhaps best be the initial place to organize such, although the fact that they are not already on this “warpath” is a bit troubling. Farming of the gov’t is easier, perhaps, for the farm groups?
Properly executed, the increase in revenues would easily finance the advertising costs, and more.
Maybe the pigs are possessed and jumping in the sea. Could be due to the anti-Christian government they have.
Fellow Freeper partner, I jumped on the Trump train as soon as I heard he was going to do something about horrible foreign trade deals. And change relative based immigration to merit based immigration.
Those 2 things are my paramount issues and no other president including the much revered Ronald Reagan did diddly squat on those 2 issues.
I am not anti-immigrant, being one myself, but importing tax payer dependent welfare queens is the height of stupidity by American politicians.
Trump can make 1000 other mistakes, but if he stays strong on those 2 issues, I will vote for him in 2020 if I have to crawl through burning piles of coal.
“Swine Fever Is Killing Vast Numbers Of Pigs In China”
If it was Avian Fly would they be quacking up?
Yeah, I’m sorry.
African Swine (Hemorrhagic) Fever has been known for more than 150 years. Recognized during European colonization of Africa.
Chinese pork impounded at docks.
Why no vaccine for it?
Based on, uh, what?
https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/crops/
Now, I DO agree CHINA has a problem...
Sorry to be slow to get back to this thread. Have not had time to look at this more closely.
And the correlation(s) in the graph are...???
From left to right -
The War with the Muslims and the internal rebellion occurred after temperatures returned to near normal (a few years or more after the Dark Ages cooling had mostly ended, it appears.)
The Goryeo-Khitan wars appear to have begun before the Oort Solar Minimum dropped temps. and precip. below average, but then continued on into the (modest) minimum.
The Mongol Invasion and Jin Dynasty collapse occurred during a period of near normal precip. and temps.
The Song Dynasty collapsed as the Wolf. (Temperature) min. took hold, but how much of that was simply due to the Mongols’ strength & success? (The cold seems not to have slowed THEM down.)
The Yuan Dynasty collapsed during a period of near normal temps., but a considerable dry spell.
The Mongols captured the Ming Emperor during a fairly normal climate / weather period.
No major historical calamities during Spoerer Min.
Multiple rebellions, wars / battles before the Little Ice Age took hold.
Ming Dynasty collapses during Maunder Minimum. The Ming Dynasty had been under various duress for a long time though - possibly the MM was the final straw?
The Dalton Minimum is such a small blip that the lack of calamities is likely irrelevant.
The famines of the Qing Dynasty occurred during near normal temps, and precip. that began near normal but then peaked (a little after the famines, it appears? Hard to say from this though, what weather (as opposed to climate) may have happened in individual years.
So... overall there is some spotty correlation, but big problems could also occur when the climate was fine, and the climate could sometimes go to heck and not spur wars or political strife.
And, FWIW... There’s little to suggest that “hot” temperatures caused strife.
Thanks to the WTO and our compliance to the country of origin labeling ruling, there is no way to know where the pork (or beef) you buy at the grocery store comes from.
I wish Trump would do something about that.
Believe China sends pigs to be processed in China...yet it still sells under Smithfield label.
With China soybeans crops devastated this year, swine fever decimating >350M swine. Pork prices should rise to all time levels this year.
"Believe China Smithfield sends pigs to be processed in China...yet it still sells under Smithfield label."?
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