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Agroterrorism
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Agroterrorism
The poisoning of the food supply in order to cause death and destruction, especially for a political end. While agroterrorism has not occurred on a large scale, it is speculated that its outbreak would cause panic in securities markets and in the wider economy, in addition to the obvious public health problems.


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00 Paperback HV6433 A March 2007 report from the Congressional Research Service, excerpted, defines agro-terrorism as a subset of bioterrorism in which a disease is deliberately planted in plant or animal food products in order to topple The Great Satan.
361 RC88 A selection of 17 papers from a workshop in Varna, Bulgaria, in May 2003 discuss bio-terrorism, agro-terrorism, diagnostics, epidemiology, vaccines, and prevention from a range of medical and military perspectives.
 
 
 
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