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they’ve been talking about that agtech solution for over 5 years and no one has built it? They could do the same with a database
by throwoutway 4y ago
they’ve been talking about that agtech solution for over 5 years and no one has built it? They could do the same with a database
- jasonwatkinspdx 4y agoA friend of mine is an economist that did a similar project (sans blockchain) in grad school. He set up a program to label fish with information about where it was caught, who caught it, when, how it was processed etc. Some of it on the package including a smiling photo of the boat owner, more details on the web behind a QR code/URL. He worked with a local chain roughly equivalent to Whole foods and had a cold case full of product like this in several of their stores. People seemed to like it when asked, but when given the choice to pay a premium for it vs the unlabeled fish, the majority declined. And this is at a store that caters to the whole hippies with money crowd. I think the people hawking this idea for consumers utterly fail to take into account that most consumers simply do not care about this. A non trivial portion actually do NOT want to know this information, similar to how some people are fine eating chicken but can't touch a raw one to cook it.
- masklinn 4y ago> people hawking this idea for consumers Do people actually... do that? I struggle to think of traceability as a massive consumer boon, as far as I could think the primary customers of such would be: 1. states (regulatory agencies) 2. consumer advocacy groups 3. the corporations themselves