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Article: Americans fearful about food security; Respondents said more should be spent on protecting the food supply than on a host of more-familiar terrorist threats.(BUSINESS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- March 22, 2006
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Byline: Mike Meyers; Staff Writer
Guarding the nation's food supply merits more federal spending than protecting against any other potential terrorist target, from airports and rail lines to the electrical power grid and national monuments.
That's a key finding of a first-of-its-kind survey - a representative national sample of 4,200 U.S. residents - to be released today by University of Minnesota researchers.
The nation spends billions to shield the nation from terrorists. But until now, the Department of Homeland Security and Congress had no way of knowing what priorities Americans put on different kinds of threats.
"If the Liberty ...