Patent ID: 7533490

Claim:
A method for creating a verified food source, comprising: planting verified seed in accordance with planting protocols to create a crop; growing the crop in accordance with crop protocols; harvesting the crop in accordance with harvest protocols to obtain grain; storing the grain in accordance with storage protocols; inspecting the grain to identify grain that meets standards addressing test weight, moisture content, damage content, foreign material content, and mycotoxin content; verifying the grain that meets the standards addressing test weight, moisture content, damage content, foreign material content, and mycotoxin content; feeding the verified grain to a certified food source; fostering the food source in accordance with fostering protocols; inspecting the food source to identify food source that meets the fostering protocols; verifying the food source that meets the fostering protocols; auditing adherence to the planting protocols; auditing adherence to the crop protocols; auditing adherence to the harvest protocols; and auditing adherence to the storage protocols; wherein the planting protocols include: providing sufficient buffer rows of plants and a sufficient distance between the crop and plants beyond the buffer rows to restrict the crop from cross-pollinating with other plants; and contaminant regulations requiring all machinery used in planting the verified seed to be kernel clean; wherein the crop protocols include: insecticide regulations; pesticide regulations; herbicide regulations; fungicide regulations; maintaining the buffer rows; and maintaining the contaminant regulations; wherein the harvest protocols include contaminant regulations requiring all machinery used in harvesting the crop to be kernel clean; wherein the harvest protocols require grain from the buffer rows to be permanently separated from the grain from the crop; wherein the storage protocols include storage structure regulations and contaminant regulations; wherein the fostering protocols include: identification regulations; vaccination regulations; hormone regulations; antibiotic regulations; rations regulations; separation regulations; documentation regulations; genetic regulations; and humane treatment regulations; wherein the verified food source is bovine; wherein the verified seed causes the resulting verified grain to be higher in omega-3 fatty acids than occurs naturally wherein the abnormally-high level of omega-3 fatty acids is transferred from the verified grain to the food source.