66 Quotes by Ann Veneman

Great Britain had a much different situation than we do and did here in the United States, in that they had literally thousands of infected animals with human health risks. Their infectivity in this disease happened before very much was known about it.

The majority of houses have been destroyed in the most affected areas, putting into question the survival of millions of children. Shelter, food and medical care are a priority for children.

The immediate availability of basic humanitarian supplies and the ability to dispatch them rapidly to populations in affected areas can save many lives in emergencies.

All of those standard operating procedures were followed, which is again why we believe that the food supply has been protected.

Few things have more impact than nutrition on a child’s ability to survive, learn effectively and escape a life of poverty.

We’ve all learned about this disease since it was first discovered several years ago in Europe. And so I think we’ve learned from the European experience.

We are doing everything we can to protect the food supply. And I can tell you that we’re making decisions based upon sound science and good public policy, given the circumstances that we are now in.

Actually, in this instance we do have probably a better tracking system than was the instance in Canada. Because this is a dairy cow, they’re all individually tagged.

We’ve had risk assessments performed by Harvard University, which said that even if we did have a small number of cases in this country that the likelihood of it spreading or getting into any kind of human health problem is very, very small.