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America’s Soft Underbelly


According to the Government Accountability Office, the watchdog arm of Congress , long-distance live animal transport not only places countries at risk for catastrophic disease outbreaks, but it makes them vulnerable to bioterrorism as well. U.S. animal agriculture has been described as a particularly easy target, as “one of the probable threats for an economic attack on this country,” according to the U.S. Deputy Secretary of Agriculture, and also as a direct attack on our citizenry.

In 2004, the RAND Corporation prepared a report on agroterrorism for the Office of the Secretary of Defense titled, Hitting America’s Soft Underbelly. It blamed America’s vulnerability in part on the “concentrated and intensive nature of contemporary U.S. farming practices.”....

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