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posted by martyb on Thursday February 28 2019, @07:37PM   Printer-friendly
from the innovation++ dept.

French President Emmanuel Macron has called for increased use of data technologies such as blockchain in the EU to boost the agriculture industry and address concerns over food traceability.

Inaugurating the 56th International Agricultural Fair in Paris at the weekend, Agridigitale.net reports, Macron spoke of the need to authenticate and track agricultural products amid growing consumer concerns over issues such such as the recent Polish beef scandal, saying:

“Let’s do this in Europe, [be at the] the vanguard of agricultural data by developing tools that will track every product from raw material production to packaging and processing.”

[...] The call for innovation came as part of a multi-part strategy that the president outlined in his speech. Europe’s agricultural policy going forward, he said, would be based on the protection of farmers and consumers against climate change and market risks, farming more ecologically, and using technology and innovation to help to solve industry challenges.

https://www.coindesk.com/french-president-says-blockchain-could-put-europe-at-vanguard-of-innovation


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 28 2019, @08:00PM (16 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 28 2019, @08:00PM (#808326)

    Well taxes are how our societies function so your point is?

    I much prefer holding companies accountable for doing nasty shit such as putting people's lives at risk or destroying the environment. Besides, the businesses are already supposed to be paying taxes so the only thing this tracking would uncover is fraud. Are you pro tax fraud??

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 28 2019, @08:10PM (10 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 28 2019, @08:10PM (#808332)

    Our societie runs on not just taxes, but also government monitoring of the citizens. I much prefer that to destruction of all I ever knew and loved. So it is then. Transparent blockchain for the people, classified transactions for the government.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 28 2019, @08:36PM (4 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 28 2019, @08:36PM (#808347)
      Complete surrender of your rights vs death of everyone... just great.
      • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 28 2019, @08:52PM (3 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 28 2019, @08:52PM (#808354)

        A scorpion asks a frog to carry it across a river. The frog hesitates, afraid of being stung, but the scorpion argues that if it did so, they would both drown. Considering this, the frog agrees, but midway across the river the scorpion does indeed sting the frog, dooming them both. When the frog asks the scorpion why the scorpion replies that it was in its nature to do so.

        • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday February 28 2019, @11:18PM (2 children)

          by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday February 28 2019, @11:18PM (#808444) Journal

          This experiment has never been reproduced by anyone.

          The premises themselves are very dubious - frog and scorpion individuals able of interspecies communication, capable of high intelligent functions like argumentation, assessing future actions, outcomes and associated risks - observations never reported in a peer-reviewed journal.

          Recommendation: while an interesting cultural point of view, it looks more like a case of anthropomorphising, with a story line, conclusions and motives totally under the control of the author.
          It is unverified, not consistent with and not supported by any science or theory, thus irrelevant for rational decisions

          --
          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 01 2019, @12:44AM (1 child)

            by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 01 2019, @12:44AM (#808491)

            I don't want to sound accusative but it sounds like you are dangerously close to denying this story.

            • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday March 01 2019, @01:04AM

              by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday March 01 2019, @01:04AM (#808494) Journal

              I don't want to sound accusative

              Try then to sound nominative.

              it sounds like you are dangerously close to denying this story.

              Which story? The one with the scorpion and frog and whatnot?
              If so: I'm throwing it at the trash bin as a nothing and loaded with whatever the teller wants to push under the disguise of a something.

              --
              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
    • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday February 28 2019, @09:00PM (3 children)

      by JoeMerchant (3937) on Thursday February 28 2019, @09:00PM (#808359)

      classified transactions for the government

      For parts like the military, yes. For much of the rest, starting with elections, I think steadily increasing transparency is the goal of all good governments.

      --
      🌻🌻 [google.com]
      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 28 2019, @09:08PM (2 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 28 2019, @09:08PM (#808362)

        Why is forever steadily increasing transparency a better goal than just becoming transparent?

        • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday February 28 2019, @11:59PM (1 child)

          by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday February 28 2019, @11:59PM (#808468) Journal

          That's elementary. Transparency inflation - the metrics is no longer the value itself, nowadays it's the rate that matters... and energizes.
          Besides, there's the thing with dark matter and energy.

          (grin)

          --
          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 01 2019, @12:08AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 01 2019, @12:08AM (#808472)

            Yes, I have heard this explanation for creating money from nothing. If the universe was created from nothing and is still expanding, the money supply needs to as well.

    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Friday March 01 2019, @11:33AM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Friday March 01 2019, @11:33AM (#808637) Journal

      but also government monitoring of the citizens. I much prefer that to destruction of all I ever knew and loved.

      Good news! You can get both government monitoring of the citizens and destruction of all you ever knew and loved. You can have it all!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 28 2019, @09:19PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 28 2019, @09:19PM (#808369)

    Well taxes are how our societies function so your point is?

    Best delivered while wearing a yellow vest.

    • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday February 28 2019, @10:32PM (2 children)

      by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Thursday February 28 2019, @10:32PM (#808412) Homepage

      Vanguard? More like En-guarde, am I right?

      That fucker deserves no less than the Guillotine. If our media weren't deep-state shits we'd be seeing the protests live in all of their glory, maybe even starting our own, and not be placated by phony crocodile tear-crying "populist" actors like Alexandra Occasio-Cortez.

      • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday March 01 2019, @01:34AM

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday March 01 2019, @01:34AM (#808504) Journal

        That fucker deserves no less than the Guillotine. If our media weren't deep-state shits we'd be seeing the protests live in all of their glory, maybe even starting our own, and not be placated by phony crocodile tear-crying "populist" actors like Alexandra Occasio-Cortez.

        Very much like the "Occupy..." protests, right? So much good those did.

        --
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
      • (Score: 3, Informative) by quietus on Friday March 01 2019, @08:17PM

        by quietus (6328) on Friday March 01 2019, @08:17PM (#808908) Journal

        Live in all their glory eh? I had to cross Paris on the second or third Saturday of protests, from the Gare du Nord to the Gare du Lyon, close to the center of the city. Metro stations closed, busses rerouted, and at strategic positions police vans stationed: while the previous protests had already caused a couple of deaths, this time the gilets jaunes had announced that they were going to break into the Elysee (storm the White House, in US terms). International travellers were warned not to attempt to travel through Paris, as things might turn nasty.

        Grand total of gilets jaunes I've seen? One, seemingly drunk -- unless it's normal to shout things while desperately clinging on a traffic light at the beginning of a Paris boulevard.

        Oh, and a bunch of fellows who looked like they knew where they were going, so I walked with them; until I made the keen observation that they were all young, twenty-somethings, clad in black, combining bottines, hoodies and picknick-style backpacks. Later that evening I saw my friends back on the continuous streaming live updates & commentary, acting all creative with bricks & fire crackers.

        The neighborhood I was staying, around the Gare Lyon, quite the number of shops were closed and boarded up, but not all: the Asian-run shops, jewellery stores and one shop which sold car parts -- anything which could be sold quickly, with a bit of racism mixed into it.

        But apart from that, it was just a mild Saturday afternoon & evening with people going about their business, neighbors chatting, parents strolling with their children, and cafes and restaurants well-filled.

        If you watched the BBC though, you'd had the impression Paris was ablaze and next stage would have been dusting off the guillotines. Maybe it is because nobody at the BBC seems to be able to speak or understand French; or maybe it's because their reporters expect to be ambushed in the Quatrieme District by filthy French forcing escargots and what have you -- nonpasteurized goat cheese, or cold beer, for example -- down their throats.

        Understandable, but still.

  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 28 2019, @10:31PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 28 2019, @10:31PM (#808409)

    taxes don't do shit for society. government is parasitic extortion. people need to stop registering their business with the leaches like dumb little whores.