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No More Maple Syrup Factory Tours, Thanks to Terrorism Threat

Here is the most ridiculous news you will probably hear all day: the press reported earlier this month that Vermont's popular Maple Grove Farms factory tour was shut down due to terrorism concerns. Whoa, what?

The Rutland Herald attempts to make sense of this: "the company, the largest maple syrup wholesaler in the nation, had to shutter the tour as a result of 'food-defense' concerns that have sprouted since terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C., nearly nine years ago." Apparently it's taken nine years for the factory to figure out that it'd cost them more than it's worth to retrofit the factory so that visitors are kept away from machinery. So they're just not allowed at all.

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