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."

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Re:Why bother?

[JonMartin]

When you can just conveniently blame Canada?

Because we are getting a little tired of it.
Brief summary of what we have been wrongly blamed for lately.
Missed opportunity to help both our industries.