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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
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 28 2019, @08:10PM (10 children)
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)
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 28 2019, @08:52PM (3 children)
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)
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)
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
Try then to sound nominative.
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)
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)
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)
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
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
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!