Gut Punch: Agroterrorism and Attacks on America's Agricultural System
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ON AMERICA'S AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM
Logan Tuckerf
I. Introdu ction .....................................................................................................44 1
II. What is Agroterrorism? .................................................................................442
III. Previous Acts of Agroterrorism....................................................................443
IV. Current Threats and Concerns Regarding Agroterrorism ............................444
A. Why is the United States Vulnerable to Acts of Agroterrorism? .......444
B. What Makes Acts of Agroterrorism Concerning? ..............................446
C. What are the Potential Impacts of an Agroterrorist Attack?...............447
D. Known Threats of Agroterrorism .......................................................450
V. What's Being Done About Agroterrorism?...................................................452
VI. What More can be Done to Prevent Agroterrorism? ....................................454
A. Preventative Measures........................................................................454
B. Response Measures.............................................................................457
VII. Conclusion ..................................................................................................457
I. INTRODUCTION
Many consider the attacks on the World Trade Center towers in New York
City and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. to be the deadliest acts of terror to
occur on the United States' soil. This statement is difficult to deny considering
nearly 3,000 Americans lost their lives due to radical jihadist terror perpetrated by
Al Qaeda.' The ramifications from this attack were widespread and many are still
felt today.2 It is hard to imagine, but another threat of terrorism against the United
States is ever present and more likely than we would like to admit.3 An act of terror
even deadlier would need to impact something we need every day to survive-
t J.D. Drake University Law School 2022; B.A. Political Science, The University of
Iowa, 2018. The author would like to thank his parents Steve and Luann Tucker, brother
Landon Tucker, and fiance Lauren Stenger for their continued support in law school and the
writing process.
1. See September 11 Terror Attacks Fast Facts, CNN (Aug. 26, 2021, 12:19 PM),
https://www.cnn.com/2013/07/27/us/september-1 1-anniversary-fast-facts/index.html
[https://perma.cc/PU99-H76V].
2. See id.
3. See PETER CHALK, HrrING AMERICA'S SOFT UNDERBELLY 19-20 (2004),
https://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG135.html [https://perma.cc/KZ45-QXM7].
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