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One More Frightening Possibility: Terrorism in the Croplands

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

By LILA GUTERMAN

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...

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