While I was reading about Agroterrorism, I thought back to the old children's cartoon, Pinky and the Brain and it always starts the same with Pinky asking brain "what are we going to do tonight?" and Brain always replies, "Same thing we do every night, try to take over the world." Now, if in one of the episodes, Pinky and the Brain had attacked the agricultural infrastructure, they would have accomplished their goals of world domination.
Agriculture in the United States is a trillion dollar industry as well as being a major player in the exporting of goods which amounted to 68 billion in 2006 alone.(Olson, Dean. 2012. Argoterrorism: Threats to America’s economy and food supply. FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin 81) This makes for a very appealing