Earlier this month, we covered the story of two Chinese nationals who smuggled a deadly fungus into America. Now, one expert is warning about our nation’s vulnerability to “agroterrorism.”

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From Fox News:

“Agroterrorism is any attempt to bring items into the United States intentionally that would impact our food supply,” Kristofor Healey told Fox News Digital. “So this would be biological organisms like we saw in this case in Michigan. A specific lab-grown organism that is intended to attack items that are key to our agricultural survival as a nation.”

Healey worked for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for 15 years, first in an immigration enforcement role and then in counter-corruption operations. Now, he is a private investigator and expert witness.

“Obviously, we’re an agricultural-based economy in many ways, so anything that’s attacking our wheat, our barley, the basic standard of what goes into so many of our food products that’s being introduced intentionally, that’s being introduced by a foreign threat to cause disruption,” Healey said. “It’s the same as any sort of other type of terrorism that’s attacking a civilian population. It’s just attacking it from that agricultural standpoint.”

The Fox News article notes, as does our previous article, that the aforementioned Chinese nationals, Yunqing Jian and Zunyong Liu, allegedly smuggled “Fusarium graminearum” into the United States. This toxic fungus reportedly causes a crop-killing “head blight” a disease affecting common grains that the Justice Department says is responsible for billions in economic losses every year.

Fox notes the fungus is also toxic to humans and livestock, causing vomiting, liver damage, and “reproductive defects.”

Healy highlights the role of the CCP in all this, suggesting that the U.S. does not fully understand what China could do to our nation:

“[Agriculture] is a very vulnerable part of our nation’s infrastructure if you have individuals who are coming into this country, as was the case in Michigan, who are coming to study, who have a lab background, who have a background in this sort of development of these sort of organisms, studying or working with these sorts of organisms,” Healey said. “If they have ill-intent, that’s the sort of thing that could cause severe disruption to our food safety, that could cause severe destruction to… what essentially goes into keeping America running.”

In light of this, Healy suggests the U.S. should pay more attention to agricultural and biological threats. He notes that, while the U.S. spends much of its time worrying about more obvious threats like bombs and weaponry, it was entirely unprepared to deal with the biological threat of COVID-19:

“I would suggest that is something we need to be thinking about a lot more, because we just came off, five years ago, the entire world being shut down by what now appears to be a biological item that leaked from a laboratory and then infected millions of people and killed millions of people around the globe,” he said.

To combat this, Healey recommends Americans prepare for an attack in the future. He suggests “looking weeks and sometimes months in the future and preparing accordingly.”

As intercessors, we know one of the best ways we can prepare is in prayer. Let’s pray for God to protect America from all threats, especially those coming from China and the CCP.

How are you praying about agroterrorism? Share your prayers and scriptures below.

(Excerpts from Fox News. Photo Credit: Paz Arando on Unsplash)