October 26, 2001

One More Frightening Possibility: Terrorism in the Croplands

By LILA GUTERMAN

Scientists say agricultural weapons against livestock or grain fields could wreak havoc

Imagine a terrorist attack on wheat fields. Cattle killed off by disease. Dying chicken populations. Those scenarios probably don't trigger as much anxiety as do better-known threats of bioterrorism such as anthrax, bubonic plague, and smallpox infection. But assaults on agriculture could just as easily cripple a country and would be far simpler to pull off, say a growing

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