We need to always be vigilant on the sanitary issues.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.