Words matter. These are the best Mike Johanns Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
We asked ourselves and the world to base decisions on good science, and I really believe the United States can be the leader in delivering that message to our international trading partners.
We had Taiwan, Egypt, Lebanon, and Oman open their markets to our beef, and we’re excited about that.
The world is really figuring BSE out, and that’s positive.
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.
In this day and age when we do so much business in foreign trade, we need the ability to identify trace an animal very quickly, identifying where it came from – where it has been, and where it is at today.
One of the things that I always say about bioterrorism, whether it’s ourselves at the federal level, folks at the state level, or folks in the private industry, we’ve done many great things, especially since 9/11.
On the professional side, those 18 years on the farm instilled my love for agriculture.
People enjoy our meat and our poultry, as I do as a consumer.
I ended up being the governor of a very ag state, Nebraska.
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.
The industry is becoming very ready for animal identification.
Food safety involves everybody in the food chain.
Producers are so much better-educated in issues related to terrorism.
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.
When one cow was found with BSE in 2003, many of our trading partners closed their borders to our beef.
Fortunately, when it comes to meat and poultry, I have the really wonderful situation of having producers and processors that produce and process a very high-quality product.
In beef trade issues, we base our decisions upon science.
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 need to always be vigilant on the sanitary issues.
My goal with the Canadian border is the same goal I have for Japan and Korea.
In 75 foreign countries, we have a presence in the USDA.
The big producer is going to figure out how to deal with whatever the rules are, but the little guy who is running a few hundred units or maybe feeding 1,500 cattle a year, how will they ever comply with these requirements?
