Mike Delaney
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Nov 2024
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There's going to be continued vulnerabilities. And unfortunately, humans aren't all that nice to each other. No, we're all really jerks to each other. Another area that I read in one of the studies that was a really fascinating risk in cybersecurity with food is not necessarily in the manufacturing part, but go back to those fields where the food is being grown.
Again, we just talked about there is dependency already on technology. Absolutely. GPS-driven farming techniques and everything else. But also, you go back to the seed love, right? So, you know, when you're a farmer and you're planting, you have a window in your weather window to plant those seeds.
A month, three weeks, you know, depending on where you are in the world, when monsoons come, when rains come, don't come. Mm-hmm. Not hitting that planting season right could either hinder yields or cause the whole harvest to be scrapped. Yeah.
The fact that we have most of the seed technology, particularly in the U.S., but globally owned and copyrighted and patented by food manufacturers is a level issue because we can't get seed unless Monsanto makes it and issues it. And so if someone infiltrates Monsanto and screws up their system, we could have an entire soybean crop that doesn't get planted.
Yeah. People don't realize how interdependent all these companies are to the system. The system is not set up in a way that if you break the spoke on this side, the wheel's going to keep moving. That's not true. It's going to collapse. We just saw that with CrowdStrike as an example. It's an example now.
What could happen if someone figured out a vulnerability that was more generic?
Yeah, it's scary. And I think I have said this before on the show and I'll continue to say it, but GPS is important to planning because the machine will know exactly how far to drill down. how far to spread out the seed to make sure it's optimal cover to keep the weeds down and it's optimal watering, all these things.
And if it's not done in that way and it's precision farming, this is the way that the farming will be going eventually. There's a lot of resistance to it because farmers are about trust and we're not strong. So sure, we feel about tech yet in a lot of places. But these big factory farms will go full precision in order to get the highest yield the best way they can.
And they'll modify their crops and be able to handle higher temperatures and monsoon seasons and that kind of thing since our climate's changing too much. Even the cattle ranchers, they're developing slip jeans for the cows. So they can stand it.
They are and they aren't. So yeah, there is money. Absolutely. There's money everywhere.
But I will say, Mike, the conversations I've had recently with the meat side of the house, I think JBS really shook them up differently because it happened on their watch and their industry that I've had several conversations in the last month alone that they're worried about their supply chain and really worried about what they're going to do about it.
And my response back always is awareness is the first step. So what are we going to do after this? Don't try to boil the ocean, just make a cup of tea. You don't need to take on the whole system. There's no way you're gonna do that.
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Now let's get back to the conversation with Mike. If you're talking about the grocery side, what can you guys do? You know, if you're talking about the actual ranchers, what are you doing? A lot of times ranchers don't have a lot of tech. Some of them do. It's not all like Yellowstone, right? They're not always flying helicopters. They're not always flying drones.
But sometimes their biggest equipment is the wheelbarrow that they take in and out of the barn. It just depends. I think we have to not oversell tech in places that doesn't need it yet. I think we need to button up what we've got out. and chaos. But I don't want people to think that it's all that all the time. It's not. Sometimes it's really fun.
Sometimes you're eating buttercream and like 10 a.m., you know, or you're eating a cookie. That's just the best part. You got the taste test. Yeah, I know. I mean, some of the some of the cookies were amazing. Some of the cakes were amazing. But I'll tell you, Mike, you're probably like me. You can't you can't unsmell that particular frosting and you can't unsmell that cake.
I walk into a grocery store and I can't eat a store bought cake anymore because I had it too much. Like,
Yeah, I always used to call it when they'd be doing icing days and also the filling days, the fruit filling, you could smell the sugar in the air. I used to call it diabetes air. And something I didn't know that I learned on the job was that sugar dust is actually highly flammable.
There were days, there were days where I'm like, I don't, I don't know how we're going to get through this. Like there were, um, so many crazy things. I got sent to factories after they just bombed for flower mites and it was nuclear material and project managers during like that whole refresh thing we did. And I got sent out for almost two years on the road. Yeah.
They're like, oh yeah, you could come back as like a superhero. And I'm like, it's not funny. You're paying my medical bills. Like, yeah. Do I need to call the corporate lawyer? Cause I will. I mean, we got to travel all over the world for that.
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