Food Chain Supply

[AzatFinrazor]

A lot of food giants explore how to apply blockchain technology to their food supply chains. Some people use blockchain just as a PR and a tribute to modern fashion on technology, and someone really uses the developments. But is it so necessary for the food industry?
What are your opinions on this matter?

If you are out of the loop, check out this article.

[Chapman.S]

A lot of food giants explore how to apply blockchain technology to their food supply chains. Some people use blockchain just as a PR and a tribute to modern fashion on technology, and someone really uses the developments. But is it so necessary for the food industry?
What are your opinions on this matter?

If you are out of the loop, check out this article.

Could somebody please clarify something for me? The way I understand it, blockchain is a technology that entails many computers in a network maintaining a single ledger. All the computers all work together to make sure the ledger is the same on all computers. Is that about right? If that's right, then what is this article even talking about? I mean, blockchain is basically just a way to store and communicate information, isn't it? Automatically tracking supply chains could be done without blockchain.

By scanning a simple QR-code with a smartphone, customers can learn important data such as the animals’ birthtime, use of antibiotics, vaccinations, the location where the livestock was harvested, and be sure there is no fraud And this will also challenge the food producers to bring the best quality.

This could also be done without blockchain. What is it that I'm not getting?

P.S. The article also has many grammar and punctuation mistakes. A bit annoying.

[Jet Cash]

I'm sorry, but I feel that whole article is a joke. I can't see my being able to scan a QR code on my burger box, to find out the birth time of the cow that was used to create the burger, and what about Subway? Will they want to admit to the source of the soya that is reputed to be used to create half their chicken sandwiches.

Of course it could be useful to try to detect and stop those Mexican mangoe immigrants sneaking into the US.

[AzatFinrazor]

Could somebody please clarify something for me? The way I understand it, blockchain is a technology that entails many computers in a network maintaining a single ledger. All the computers all work together to make sure the ledger is the same on all computers. Is that about right? If that's right, then what is this article even talking about? I mean, blockchain is basically just a way to store and communicate information, isn't it? Automatically tracking supply chains could be done without blockchain.

Blockchains can use oracles to record data onto the blockchain automatically. For example, blockchains can keep track of the temperature at which food products are stored and record the data onto the blockchain. And since blockchains are untamperable, they provide transparency.

[AzatFinrazor]

I'm sorry, but I feel that whole article is a joke. I can't see my being able to scan a QR code on my burger box, to find out the birth time of the cow that was used to create the burger, and what about Subway? Will they want to admit to the source of the soya that is reputed to be used to create half their chicken sandwiches.

Of course it could be useful to try to detect and stop those Mexican mangoe immigrants sneaking into the US.

You are what you eat, and you ought to know thyself

On a serious note, I do sometimes wonder where the patty in my burger came from.
It could be nice to know.

[Honour423]

If you detach from the cryptocurrency aspect of Blockchain it’s not a bad idea. This is an article I recently wrote on the subject.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-satoshi-public-blockchain-best-choice-food-safety-edward-honour

Food safety on the blockchain is more about quickly finding dangerous food than learning the birthday of your hamburger.

[Chapman.S]

I can't see my being able to scan a QR code on my burger box, to find out the birth time of the cow that was used to create the burger, and what about Subway?

Yeah, especially considering that burgers are not usually made of stay. It's ground meat (surely mixed with other things). Would they have a list of all the cows they kills and ground up that day with all their b-days etc.?

Could somebody please clarify something for me? The way I understand it, blockchain is a technology that entails many computers in a network maintaining a single ledger. All the computers all work together to make sure the ledger is the same on all computers. Is that about right? If that's right, then what is this article even talking about? I mean, blockchain is basically just a way to store and communicate information, isn't it? Automatically tracking supply chains could be done without blockchain.

Blockchains can use oracles to record data onto the blockchain automatically. For example, blockchains can keep track of the temperature at which food products are stored and record the data onto the blockchain. And since blockchains are untamperable, they provide transparency.

Yeah, I don't doubt that you could automatically record data to a blockchain. You use temperature as an example. That's probably the easiest example because it's just a number that a sensor can give back. When you get into other things discussed here, it's much less straightforward. It would require human input. Even with the temperature, sure maybe the blockchain would be tamperfree, but you could easily tamper with data before it goes to the blockchain. They only thing blockchain offers to this issue seems to be a database that's hard to tamper with. All the talk about cow data on QR codes and stuff is things that could be done completely independently of blockchain.