Hitting America's soft underbelly : : the potential threat of deliberate biological attacks against the U.S. agricultural and food industry / / Peter Chalk.
Over the past decade, the United States has endeavored to increase its ability to detect, prevent, and respond to terrorist threats and incidents. The agriculture sector and the food industry in general, however, have received comparatively little attention with respect to protection against terrori...
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| Year of Publication: | 2004 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (67 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Preface; Contents; Tables; Summary; Acknowledgments; Acronyms; CHAPTER ONE Introduction; Research Methods; The Importance of the Agricultural Sector to the U.S. Economy; Organization of This Report; CHAPTER TWO Vulnerability of U.S. Agriculture to Bio-Attacks; Concentrated and Intensive Contemporary Farming Practices; Increased Susceptibility of Livestock to Disease; Insufficient Farm/Food-Related Security and Surveillance; Inefficient Passive Disease-Reporting System; A Focus on Aggregate Rather Than Individual Livestock Statistics
- Capability Requirements for Carrying Out an Agroterrorist Attack CHAPTER THREE Potential Impact of a Major Act of Agroterrorism; Economic Disruption; Loss of Political Support and Confidence in the Government; Social Instability; Agroterrorism to Generate Financial Capital and as a Form of Blackmail; Biological Assaults Against Agriculture and Terrorists' Modus Operandi; CHAPTER FOUR Policy Recommendations; Bibliography