India celebrates rapid adoption of its internet of livestock

India's Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying has celebrated rapid uptake of its effort to digitize the nation's livestock. The Bharat Pashudhan Livestock Data Stack that makes it possible was dedicated to the nation in early March by prime minister Narendra Modi, after being implemented several months earlier …

[cyberdemon]

Don't give the next Home Secretary any ideas

Or (s)he'll be buying this for all of us lot.

Moo

[I ain't Spartacus]

The Far Side

Where's Gary Larson when you need him.

He could have so much fun with a livestock census. And of course cows in Blighty have passports - but are probably quite disappointed by the destination, when the farmer sends them on "holiday".

Links to my favourite Far Side cartoon

[Dimmer]

Re: The Far Side

Lay at night the sheriff knocks on my door.

“Sir , is this your Ostrich?”

Nope, but if you can’t find who owns them, come on back and we will have a heck of a bar-b-q

[Doctor Syntax]

Implementing it must have been a cash cow for somebody.

[I ain't Spartacus]

I've herd that it was flocking difficult. The first contractor made a right pig's ear of it so they had to farm the work out to a moo bidder.

[Doctor Syntax]

Ghee, we'd butter not milk this with cheesey puns.

[samzeman]

What's the incentive to use this?

Just because I know some technophobes in my personal life who would dig in their heels at the prospect of digitising anything.

[Antron Argaiv]

Does this mean that all those sacred cows wandering the streets in the rural areas will be licensed, tagged, and tracked?