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[Livingontheland] U.S. moving to high-tech livestock tracking
- From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@gilanet.com>
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- Subject: [Livingontheland] U.S. moving to high-tech livestock tracking
- Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2004 08:04:57 -0700
U.S. moving to high-tech livestock tracking
If there's a bright side to the U.S. mad cow scare, it's that it could speed
the country's move to a centralized system that electronically tracks animals
as they move from fields to feedlots to food stores. Efforts to create a
centralized database, which exist in some countries, including Canada, have
been slowed so far by disputes over who would maintain the database and who
would bear its cost. Such a database could let agricultural officials
determine within hours where a sick animal came from and where it went, a
crucial step in a disease outbreak or a terrorist assault on the food supply.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Y13511EE6
- [Livingontheland] U.S. moving to high-tech livestock tracking, Tradingpost, 01/03/2004
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