NYT story on foot-and-mouth (called hoof-and-mouth where I came from) outbreak in Japan threatening to tank it's prized beef industry.
The fear is legitimate. Similar thing happened with mad cow in the US in the early part of last decade and our beef exports dropped dramatically overnight, and still haven't totally recovered--last time I checked.
You see the rising networks and the incredibly vulnerability and you think, this is where terrorism will go in this century.