What the food industry really needs is a trusted, traceable and easily accessible history of each product’s journey – from farm, to fork. And this is exactly what Blockchain can do. Every step in the food production and transportation cycle is verified (through the consensus of those involved) and recorded onto the Blockchain – guaranteeing security and immutability.
Good idea. There are plans to utilize blockchain in a similar role to track growth and distribution of items within the legal cannabis industry. Blockchain utilized in a food tracking role could be more feasible in europe. Judges in the united states typically rule verdicts against food labels advertising whether food products are organically grown or produced via GMO's. That makes it difficult to imagine a system of tracking being adopted.
Europe however has often banned GMOs and made it illegal for many US produced meat, milk and food products to be imported into their countries so they can be consumed. A blockchain based food tracking system might have a chance of mass adoption in european or asian countries. In the USA however it is unlikely that would ever happen.
