About this episode

Lara Logan interviews Ammon Blair about the resurgence of the New World Screwworm and its implications for America's food supply and national security.

Who’s Pushing the Latest Attack On America’s Food Supply? In this explosive episode, Lara Logan sits down with Ammon Blair — former U.S. Border Patrol agent, U.S. Army infantry officer, and Senior Research Fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation — to expose one of the most disturbing threats slipping across the southern border: the New World Screwworm. Once nearly eradicated in the U.S., this flesh-eating blowfly is back. It lays eggs in open wounds as small as a tick bite, where hundreds of maggots hatch and burrow into living tissue — devastating livestock, wildlife, pets, and potentially humans. With confirmed cases surging in Mexico and already appearing in the United States, the economic and national security implications are massive. Ammon Blair breaks down how Mexican cartels are exploiting cattle trafficking routes to move infected animals northward, flooding legitimate supply chains with falsified documents. He connects the outbreak to cartel territorial expansion through protected rainforests, the failures of open border policies, and the collapse of domain awareness along the Texas border. The conversation dives deep into how cartels have evolved from drug runners…

People in this episode

Host: Lara Logan

Guest: Ammon Blair

Topics covered

• bioweapons
• food supply
• cartels
• national security
• screwworm outbreak
• border policies

Keywords

• screwworm
• bioweapon
• cartels
• food supply chain
• border security
• livestock
• national security
• Ammon Blair

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Texas Public Policy Foundation

Places: Mexico, United States, Texas

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