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

The meat and poultry industries are outstanding industries, and it's going to be a very natural fit for me.

Our job is to ensure that meat and poultry products are safe, wholesome, accurately labeled for the benefit of the American consumers, and to make sure that they are in compliance with all federal laws.

We had Taiwan, Egypt, Lebanon, and Oman open their markets to our beef, and we're excited about that.

Today, we can tell people we have a testing process and facilities in place on a nationwide basis.

Blaming your faults on your nature does not change the nature of your faults. After growing up on a dairy farm, everything in life seemed easy

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.