Re:Impossible Pork
by imtringued on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @05:50AM
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How do you ensure that the meat didn't come from a factory farm? When you're going to a friend's BBQ or a restaurant you may not know the source of the meat.
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Re:Impossible Pork
by claudiawerner on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @06:54AM
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I assume that it would be possible to ask and find out from the packaging, just as one currently finds out if foods contain certain allergens. Asking the BBQ host if the meat is factory farmed or grown in a lab would be just like asking if the mustard contains gluten.
This is an actual use case for a blockchain - itβs already used in Walmart (with IBM) to check where some vegetables have come from and this is not far from that. Maybe some sort of QR code you can scan to see the items history from source.