{"id":1123,"date":"2009-05-19T04:26:07","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T08:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=1123"},"modified":"2009-05-19T04:26:07","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T08:26:07","slug":"1123","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/19\/1123\/","title":{"rendered":"Bioterrorism or Bioterrorism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Terrorists attacking our food supply is a nightmare scenario that has been given new life during the recent swine flu outbreak. Although it seems easy to do, understanding why it hasn&#8217;t happened is important. GR Dalziel, at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, has written a report chronicling every confirmed case of malicious food contamination in the world since 1950: 365 cases in all, plus 126 additional unconfirmed cases. What he found demonstrates the reality of terrorist food attacks.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out 72% of the food poisonings occurred at the end of the food supply chain &#8211; at home &#8211; typically by a friend, relative, neighbour, or co-worker trying to kill or injure a specific person. A characteristic example is Heather Mook of York, who in 2007 tried to kill her husband by putting rat poison in his spaghetti.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2009\/may\/14\/bruce-schneier-bioterrorism\">We shouldn&#8217;t poison our minds with fear of bioterrorism<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But, the Grumpy Vegan wonders, aren&#8217;t animal foods, because of their adverse impact on human health, bioterrorism?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terrorists attacking our food supply is a nightmare scenario that has been given new life during the recent swine flu outbreak. Although it seems easy to do, understanding why it hasn&#8217;t happened is important. GR Dalziel, at the Nanyang Technological &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/19\/1123\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-1123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eating","tag-animals-in-agriculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}