The JP Blog has commented before on the government's plans to move the Plum Island hoof-and-mouth disease facility to a location on the mainland and renaming it the National Bio-and-Agro-Defense Facility that will also study diseases that can be transferred from animals to humans.

Flora is on the short list for the laboratory, along with Athens, Ga., Manhattan, Kan., Butner, N.C., and San Antonio.

USA Today recently ran an article on the issue in which our own representative Chip Pickering is quoted as strongly supporting the move to Flora.

Read the article and ask yourself whether or not you would like to live anywhere close to a facility that works not only with hoof-and-mouth disease, but also with diseases that can infect human beings.