Sludge Watch ==> Attacking Americans through food supply

[maureen.reilly at sympatico.ca]

Sludgewatch Admin:


Deliberate introduction of diseases into American agriculture?  Isn't that 
what the land application of sewage sludge does?  Shouldn't someone tell 
Homeland Security about sludge?


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Terrorists plot to attack Americans through food supply

01.aug.06
AXcess News
Via Ag-Security Alert
Jim Kouri
http://www.axcessnews.com/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=10665


New York - While airport security, seaport protection, illegal immigration 
and other functions of the Department of Homeland Security garner more 
attention and news headlines, one of the most feared terrorist tactics is 
the use of the United States' domestic food supply chain to kill as many 
Americans as possible.

Intelligence sources believe that this type of terrorist plot is being 
considered by members of several groups including Al-Qaeda. In fact, the DHS 
has a term to describe such a tactic: Agroterrorism.
US agriculture generates more than $1 trillion per year in economic activity 
and provides an abundant food supply for Americans and others.

Since the September 11, 2001, attacks, there have been new concerns about 
the vulnerability of US agriculture to the deliberate introduction of animal 
and plant diseases.

Several agencies, including the US Department of Agriculture, the Department 
of Homeland Security, the Department of Health and Human Services, the 
Environmental Protection Agency, and the Department of Defense, play a role 
in protecting the nation against agroterrorism.