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ONE LONE TERRORIST CAN SHUT DOWN ENTIRE
CATTLE INDUSTRY
This ran in 99 USA and we started our article with it...for 1999 article
8-18-99 USA TODAY
Mad-cow Fear Leads To Blood-donation Ban
WASHINGTON - Some Americans who visited Britain frequently at the height
of that country's mad-cow disease scare will be banned from donating
blood, the government decided Tuesday. The U.S. Food and Drug
Administration and Health Canada issued guidelines that ban donations by
people who visited England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Isle of
Man and Channel Islands.
We thought this USA article demonstrates how that one heard of cattle,
infected in 3 different states, could almost instantly shut down these
entire cattle industry in the entire US.
This could wipe you out overnight, if you are in the cattle
business. One terrorist applying an infected cotton swap to the nose
of 3 different cows in 3 different states would do the trick.
One lone terrorist carrying mad cow or African hoof and mouth disease
could literally destroy the entire cattle industry overnight by infecting
just a few cattle around the country. This type of warfare has been
identified in the Soviet Union and in Iraq and there are little or
no means to detect or prevent such an action occurring according to the
FBI.
With the resulting media blitz of the hazard to their health, of consuming
beef or dairy products, the industry could be effectively shut down in
short order.
Other ag products and crops such as soybeans could be devastated by
spreading soybean rust, poultry disease could be spread rapidly such as a
recent Belgium dioxin chicken feed contamination that is reported to have
cost that country nearly one billion dollars. One lone low tech
terrorist with a pop cooler in his car has the capability of destroying a
major part of the US ag industry.
Editors note...everyone seemed to think this article was pretty far
out...in 99......now they are not so sure...
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