A biological terror attack on the U.S. food supply could come soon, but many Washington lawmakers aren’t taking the threat seriously, a U.S. senator from Kansas said Thursday.
A successful attack would disrupt the food supply of not just the nation, but the entire world, Republican Sen. Pat Roberts said on the final day of the three-day International Symposium on Agroterrorism
“Experts in the field warn, this threat is not an ‘if’ but a ‘when,'” Roberts said at the symposium, sponsored by the FBI and its Joint Terrorism Task Force. “The effects of such an attack would be devastating. Halting exports or shipments of agriculture production and all other exports due to contraction of disease by just one animal would have a ripple effect unlike we have seen in the U.S.”
via Kansas senator warns agroterrorism attack ‘likely’ – Forbes.com.
