May 18, 2009 5:13PM # Don’t Fear Attacks on the Food Supply By [Jim Harper](https://www.cato.org/people/jim-harper) --- SHARE Bruce Schneier, a participant in our [January counterterrorism conference](https://www.cato.org/counterterrorism), reviews a [recent report](http://www.rsis.edu.sg/CENS/publications/reports/RSIS_Food%20Defence_170209.pdf) and discusses the possibility of attacks on the food supply in [a post on his blog](http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/05/attacking_the_f.html): > The quantities involved for mass poisonings are too great, the nature of the food supply too vast and the details of any plot too complicated and unpredictable to be a real threat. That becomes crystal clear as you read the details of the different incidents: it’s hard to kill one person, and very hard to kill dozens. Hundreds, thousands: it’s just not going to happen any time soon. The fear of bioterror is much greater, and the panic from any bioterror scare will injure more people, than bioterrorism itself. ##### Related Tags [Defense and Foreign Policy](https://www.cato.org/defense-foreign-policy) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).