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Article: 9/11 and agricultural security.
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- Florida Bar Journal
- Article date:
- November 1, 2003
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The events of September 11 accelerated congressional focus on the necessity of counterterrorism efforts and strengthening of critical infrastructure to better protect American agricultural production and resources. Because of the importance of agriculture to American economic, political, and social stability, addressing the bioterrorism threat to agriculture has taken on a new urgency.
For decades during the Cold War, both the United States and the Soviet Union researched numerous ways to destroy or severely damage each other's agricultural systems. Both nations well understood the importance of agriculture. The same threat to American economic and political ...