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.

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

Growing up on a dairy farm, you certainly learn discipline and a commitment to purpose.

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.

The president has been a true friend of the ag industry, because he continues to invest large amounts of money at a time when savings is really the goal of the federal government to deal with the deficit.

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