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- noun Any act of
terrorism designed todamage theagriculture of a state, especially by destroyingcrops or introducingpests ordiseases .
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Examples
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TUCKER: Two years ago, when Tommy Thompson stepped down as secretary of Health and Human Services, he called agroterrorism a grave concern for this country.
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That's something called agroterrorism, the fear that terrorists may one day purposefully infect the U.S. food supply and kill huge numbers of people.
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He took us at a central California field to show us just how vulnerable the nation's food supply is to so called agroterrorism, starting with the relatively easy public access to crops.
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We've had a discussion about the possibility of anybody conducting what I call "agroterrorism," or an attack on our food supply.
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Last year at an agroterrorism conference in Kansas City, FBI Director Robert Mueller said, "We know that members of al Qaeda have studied our agriculture industry."
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Nelken, who believes preventing agroterrorism should be a high priority, even thinks that security cameras should watch over unattended crops.
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TUCKER: There is nothing new about the idea of agroterrorism.
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When you think agroterrorism, the food process, all of those things, this is something we have to get ahead of.
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You should know that the congressionally mandated Gilmore Commission indicates that agroterrorism is a significant potential problem.
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Although there is an ongoing scientific debate over whether foreign terrorists have the technology and ability to launch a credible attack on the U.S. food supply, Kennedy believes the chances of being sickened by such a deliberate agroterrorism act are increasing.
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