The agricultural supply chain can massively benefit from blockchain
Story Date: 9/20/2018

 

Source: FORBES, 9/14/18

A U.S. consumer goes to the grocery store and buys chicken for his evening meal. He “trusts” that the chicken is safe, that it has been inspected by USDA experts and is okay to eat. But he knows nothing about the origin of that chicken, how it was grown, or whose “hands” it went through on its way to that grocery store shelf. Perhaps it was raised in China and slaughtered in very unsanitary and unfavorable conditions. Perhaps it was raised in the U.S. and pumped full of antibiotics and steroids to make it much bigger and thus appealing and worth more as it was distributed to a grocer.


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