What is agroterrorism?

What is 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?

Malicious use of plant or animal pathogens to cause a devastating disease in the agricultural sector. For example, if we were able to infect milk somehow, or dairy cows, to the point that when milk finally got to the shelf and people start getting sick. And what's interesting about that kind of terrorism, from a terrorist perspective, it would take so long before we've connected the dots sometimes that their success would be that we dont connect the dots in the way of victims. Once we realize that we've got a pathogen, it's easy to track down, but if everybody doesn't get in the system with CDC and they don't connect the dots that what's happening in Los Angeles is also happening in San Francisco and Phoenix and Dallas and it's all because they all drank milk then it gets to leverage and becomes a force multiplier.