Using RFID To Prevent Mad Cow Disease

prostoalex writes "Associated Press suggests that the United States might be on the move to create a centralized animal database that would track all sorts of information about the farm animals, including their origins. RFID technology comes into play, apparently, with cheap tags that could be assigned to animals right after birth and special scanners capable of retrieving the RFID and fetching the data from the centralized database."

Comments

Another spike into the family farm's heart

[ic0wb0y]

Let's get the basic facts out in the open. MCD is caused by feeding cows dead cows. The only cows that get fed this way are chicken coop cows in billion dollar agri corp controlled farms and ranches, who are doing everything they can to control all land and farms-and water. The open range cattle do not get MCD-ever. It's why UK got it so bad, no open range farming any more.

Who takes the brunt of every bad event in farming? The family man.

Agri business is a giant monopoly who has fought for many years trying to keep feeding dead cows to save a few pennies a pound-now they are saying that "oh, $25 a cow for RIFD will save the world from (the disease they caused) these rogue ranchers." the lobbiests cry. It's all PC these days.

I was in Ft. Collins one time. I was picking up a load of cattle. The cows were so gigantic I thought I'd woken up in a dream. A regular steer was so massive the poor thing couldn't even walk with out struggling. At least 500 lbs larger than normal. It was of course not a good family ranch, it was in a giant corporation feedlot. These criminals should be put to jail-and one day they will be.

It can lay dormant for up to 30 years before MCD affects a human. If you ate at McDonalds yesterday, their is a chance within 30 years you'll be acting like, yes-a mad cow. I've seen videos of victims. Sad indeed. 95% of all beef exports have been halted. Beef prices will plummet to 50 cents a lb. MMm. We'll be consuming beef like mad men.

hypeof(RFID) == hepeof(XML)

[utahjazz]

Yes, RFID is the key to this technology. Now that we have RFID, we can track cows. Prior to RFID it was virtually impossible to have a database of cows. But now, with the invention of RFID, tracking cows is trivial.

Here's a really effective cure to Mad Cow Disease:

[Anonymous Coward]

Stop feeding cows other cows. I have a feeling they'll be willing to go vegetarian.