DailyDirt: Tracking Down Your Food
from the urls-we-dig-up dept
Poking through your fridge for a snack doesn’t quite count as hunting for food. Not too many of us actually kill what we eat or farm fruits and vegetables, but there are a few online tools that’ll help people see where they’re food is coming from. Here are just a few examples of food-tracking projects that could bring some aspects of farming closer to home.
- Keeping track of nearly every aspect of a pig’s life and “afterlife” seems like a huge project, but the pork industry is starting to collect data on where your sausage and pork chops grew up. Who needs to play Farmville when there’ll be real-time systems keeping track of actual farm animals that you can eat in real life…? [url]
- Chicken trackers have been available for a few years now, allowing people to easily see where their poultry came from. Stalking your chicken could make it more appetizing. [url]
- The US Department of Agriculture has an online mapping tool for finding “food deserts” — not desserts — where there is limited availability of healthy foods. This online map doesn’t show where there isn’t any pizza delivery service, but maybe it should so it gets more traffic. [url]
- To discover more food-related links, check out what’s floating around in StumbleUpon. [url]
By the way, StumbleUpon can also recommend some good Techdirt articles, too.
Filed Under: data, food, food deserts, mapping tools, tracking, usda
Comments on “DailyDirt: Tracking Down Your Food”
stalking your chicken...
STalking your chicken sounds like a euphamism for something, but I’m not sure what.
Re: stalking your chicken...
One must stalk their chicken before choking it. In that sense, it would either be a euphemism for searching for porn or developing an erection.
There are many people who want to know whether a product contains pink slime, is genetically modified, was injected with hormones, was exposed to pesticides/herbicides, what it was fed and where, etc … you know, all those things some producers are afraid to admit and threaten others for pointing out.