CQ on NBAF

Grady Thrasher and Kathy Prescott are going global.

The founders of the local anti-NBAF group For Athens Quality of Life made their way up to Washington Thursday for the Department of Homeland Security’s first public hearing on its draft environmental impact statement for the National Bio- and Agro-defense Facility.

The D.C. newspaper Congressional Quarterly interviewed them.

“We don’t think it should be on the mainland because the release of foot-and-mouth would be a catastrophic event,” Thrasher said. “We don’t want it in our community. But we don’t want it anywhere else, either.”