Month: September 2022

"ANTI-AGRICULTURAL BIOWARFARE ... there exist a variety of possibilities for economic gain for perpetrators, and the list of possible perpetrators includes corporations, which may have state-of-the-art technical expertise. Furthermore, attacks are substantially easier to do: the agents aren’t hazardous to humans, delivery systems are readily available and unsophisticated, maximum effect may only require a few cases, delivery from outside the target country is possible, and an effective attack can be constructed to appear natural." http://lnkd.in/dZa_SKe View in LinkedIn

COLD WAR ANTI-CROP AGENTS. "Diseases such as wheat blast and rice blast were weaponized in aerial spray tanks and cluster bombs for delivery to enemy watersheds in agricultural regions to initiate epiphytotics (epidemics among plants). When the United States renounced its offensive biological warfare program in 1969 and 1970, the vast majority of its biological arsenal was composed of these plant diseases. Scorched earth tactics or destroying livestock and farmland were carried out in the Vietnam war (cf. Agent Orange) and Eelam War in Sri Lanka." http://lnkd.in/dFHK9z5 View in LinkedIn

PROJECT ECOLOGY: ANTI-LIVESTOCK AGENTS. "In 1980s Soviet Ministry of Agriculture had successfully developed variants of foot-and-mouth disease, and rinderpest against cows, African swine fever for pigs, and psittacosis to kill chicken. These agents were prepared to spray them down from tanks attached to airplanes over hundreds of miles. The secret program was code-named "Ecology"." http://lnkd.in/dFHK9z5 View in LinkedIn

GENOME-SPECIFIC WEAPONS. "Agriculture is highly vulnerable to genotype-specific weapons. Agriculture, particularly in many developed countries, has several properties that make it vulnerable to attack with genotype-specific weapons. Typically it employs monocropping of large acreages with genetically identical cultivars, and high-density husbandry of genetically inbred animal strains. These agronomic practices reduce the genetic variability that makes populations resistant to genotype-specific weapons, and it creates conditions (large, dense populations) that facilitate disease spread." http://lnkd.in/dZa_SKe View in LinkedIn

BIOMALWARE COMBINED WITH CROP MONOCULTURE "certainly increases food security issues, not only from a climatic and natural disease vulnerability, but also from the deliberate attempts of individuals, governments or corporations to game the system with genome-specific biomalware." http://lnkd.in/dZa_SKe View in LinkedIn

US AND SOVIET FOOD-TARGETED BIOWARFARE. "During World War II, the United States and Canada secretly developed anti-livestock agents such as rinderpest ... Between 1951 and 1969, the United States also produced and stockpiled three anti-crop agents: stem rust of wheat, stem rust of rye, and rice blast. From the 1960s through the early 1990s, the Soviet Union’s anti-agricultural warfare program (which had the ironic cover-name “Ecology”) employed some 10,000 people and targeted poultry, livestock, and crops." http://lnkd.in/dnjsN5Thttp://lnkd.in/drn33tq View in LinkedIn

IRAQUI FOOD BIOWARFARE PROGRAMS. "Saddam Hussein’s Iraq developed a variety of fungal agents to attack Iran’s staple food crops ... Iraq conducted field tests of wheat cover smut to demonstrate its effectiveness as an anti-crop agent. Iraq also produced canisters designed to disperse the fungal agent over Iranian wheat fields." http://lnkd.in/dnjsN5Thttp://lnkd.in/drn33tq View in LinkedIn

RECENT US AND SOVIET FOOD BIOWARFARE. "The United States and Canada secretly developed anti-livestock agents such as rinderpest ... the United States also produced and stockpiled three anti-crop agents: stem rust of wheat, stem rust of rye, and rice blast ... the Soviet Union’s anti-agricultural warfare program ... employed some 10,000 people and targeted poultry, livestock, and crops." http://lnkd.in/dnjsN5Thttp://lnkd.in/drn33tq View in LinkedIn

REFERENCES FOR FOOD BIOWARFARE PROGRAMS." " http://lnkd.in/dnjsN5T http://lnkd.in/drn33tq View in LinkedIn

US CHEMICAL WARFARE STOCKPILES. "Declared a large chemical arsenal of 27,771 metric tons to the OPCW after the CWC came into force in 1997. Along with Russia, the United States recieved an extension when it was unable to complete destruction of its chemical stockpiles by 2012. As of August 2013, the United States has destroyed nearly 25,000 metric tons of chemical agents. The United States Army believes that destruction will be completed by 2023." http://lnkd.in/dd2C6wz View in LinkedIn