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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: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday February 28 2019, @11:02PM
The only part of those deficits I credit Obama with are the ones he ran up while not ending the war as quickly as possible. Gulf War II was a huge financial mistake, maybe not quite up to Vietnam standards, but we've got actual economic competition in the world this time around.
As for taxing the taxes - I'm also for simplifying the taxing structure, actually somewhat along the lines of carrot top's simplification initiative: for every new thing, remove two old things. It's an oversimplified and not entirely workable idea, which is why I think it really came from the Donald himself, but it should be applied to the tax code permanently, until we end up with less than 10% of the complexity that we have today.
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