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Jon Dunn ReportingA Utah company hopes its new technology will change the face of the country's meat supply forever.
One hundred million head of cattle make up the sources of America's beef. It's "what's for dinner" but Mad Cow, Hoof and Mouth disease, E. coli and antibiotics all should be concerns for consumers.
Using wireless technology, North Salt Lake company Tek-Vet tags bovine with a remote box that simply sees if a cow has a fever or if they're too cold.
"The cowboys are watching the cows and they go check them all the time. This also acts as a validation, when they think might be sick they can go check on them here."
Tek-Vet CTO Richard Keene says the rancher, cowboy or farmer tracks via the Internet each individual cow in their herd.
"If we plan to export, we are going to have to have a system like this."
So what does this mean to you as the consumer? How about cows not pumped full of antibiotics? And the ability to check out where your New York Strip came from.
"You'll be able to buy that piece of meat and go online and put in that animal identifier and find out the entire history of that animal."
Tali Haleua says they hope to have the consumer side up and running within the next three to four months, and he says they have customers from Utah and across the world already----including a farm in Argentina.
