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Article: U.S. agriculture is not immune to threat. (Terrorism).
- Article from:
- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- December 1, 2002
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Although U.S. agriculture is not likely to rate high on a terrorist's hit list, farmers shouldn't grow complacent, faculty members at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind., warn. The industry is too large and geographically decentralized to take down, and an attack on agriculture probably wouldn't provide terrorists the shocking images Americans witnessed on Sept. 11. However, internationally contaminating even a portion of the nation's food supply could have serious economic repercussions.
"Most of the people that I talk to in the industry believe agriculture is not the sexy target a terrorist group would want to go after," points out Steve Cain, a Purdue ...