Editing Flora, Mississippi (section)

===National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility===
In 2008, the [[United States Department of Homeland Security|U.S. Department of Homeland Security]] announced that the Flora Industrial Park was one of six locations in the United States being considered for the construction of a new [[National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility]]. Some people were concerned about dangers from biological research.

Flora's mayor, Scott Greaves, had responded to opposition to the facility in 2007, saying, "Education is the whole key to it. You have to find the people who are concerned and educate them. In the end, you're still going to have a few idiots." [[Manhattan, Kansas]], was finally selected as the site for the new facility.<ref>{{cite web | title = Some Sure, Some Not, of Lab's Safety | publisher = Athens Banner-Herald | date = September 16, 2007 | url = http://onlineathens.com/stories/091607/news_20070916068.shtml}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last = Kingsbury | first = Nancy | title = Biological Research: Observations on DHS's Analyses Concerning Whether Foot and Mouth Disease Research Can be Done as Safely on the Mainland as on Plum Island | publisher = General Accounting Office | date = 2009 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=PzF6HAJSJ7wC&pg=PP1| isbn = 9781437920987 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title = National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility | publisher = U.S. Department of Homeland Security | url = https://www.dhs.gov/national-bio-and-agro-defense-facility | access-date = February 1, 2014 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130503012952/http://www.dhs.gov/national-bio-and-agro-defense-facility | archive-date = May 3, 2013 | url-status = dead }}</ref>