I have a couple of theories why corporate America is so short-sighted. Paradoxically, workshops I have taught in Peru, Thailand, Panama and the Caribbean have received considerable interest from their governments, universities and food industry (factories). I regret to share with you that today there is far less interest, at least in the United States. There was significant interest in this topic after 9/11, as you might imagine. When I am not working on maintenance systems, part of my consulting practice is in "food defense," the concept of keeping the bad guys from intentionally contaminating our food supply. I recognize this in a related area of my professional life. We had grown less interested than we once were. When this brazen attack occurred, one of the things made evident was that many of us had let our guards down since 9/11. If not for a failure to detonate, many lives would have been lost. A terrorist with a bomb passes through airport screening undetected on Christmas day.
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