People enjoy our meat and our poultry, as I do as a consumer.

There is a tremendous amount of support for the approach we have taken, which again is to base our decisions on risk analysis and thoughtful scientific process.

Science is the international language, so when we are able to convince countries that good decision-making for human health and animal health is based upon science, that’s a real success story for us.

We're going to do everything possible to make sure that food safety is always paramount, and that we work with the industry as aggressively as we can to make sure that we're paying attention to the food-safety issues.

When one cow was found with BSE in 2003, many of our trading partners closed their borders to our beef.

The industry is becoming very ready for animal identification.

The world is really figuring BSE out, and that's positive.