How safe is the US food supply from agroterrorism?

How safe is the US food supply from agroterrorism?

Erroll Southers (Former Deputy Director of the California Department of Homeland Security) gives expert video advice on: What is agroterrorism?; How safe is the US food supply from agroterrorism?; What will the US government do in the event of an agroterrorist attack?

I think our food supply is safe from agroterroism. Agroterrorism is when you use plant or animal pathogens to infect the food supply. What's interesting is that the agricultural industry are so good at what they do that if we were to ever have an incident of agroterrorism, they can trace it back to the animal, the farm, the grocery store, with relative ease, and quite quickly as I understand it, which is what gives me a level of comfort of the food supply being protected. Can a lot of people get sick? Of course they can. Is it something that we would see utilized by the groups I described? Probably not, and here's my reasoning: it's long acting before people realize it's happened - it's not spectactular enough. It may be low yield in terms of utility. So if I'm a group that wants to make a statement, seeing people die over a period of time because I've infected the food source is probably not what I'm going to do.