We had a single find of BSE in this country. And we believe that what we’re doing is appropriate action taken in an abundance of caution under the circumstances. And I believe it’s the right...

We must be prepared for a worsening drought. Children are especially vulnerable to malnutrition and disease and the burden on already over-stretched health, nutrition and water services will be even greater.

This action is being taken as a cautionary measure to ensure the protection of public health, … Public health is our number-one priority, and it is our number-one concern.

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...

Education of children, especially girls, is the cornerstone to national progress,

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.

It is important to protect children from being recruited and used in armed conflict.

Most housing has been destroyed in the hardest-hit areas, so the survival of thousands of young children is now at stake.

I’m confident that we have measures in place. And the additional measures that we announced yesterday will be even more protective of our food supply in this country.

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.

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...

So it’s very important that we have an education program for families about how to protect children if they have sick birds around their homes.

There are still too few helicopters to reach more than 1,000 remote villages with lifesaving supplies that children urgently need.

The cows have ID numbers. And we should be able, throughout the investigation, which is ongoing as we speak, to be able to track that cow back to where it came from initially.

Meeting the Millennium Development Goals depends on reaching vulnerable children throughout the developing world.

I also believe that it’s the right thing to do, to maintain strong consumer confidence in our food systems. And I believe that the consumer should have strong confidence in our food systems.

Almost one in three children in Zimbabwe, 1,6-million, are now orphaned, having lost at least one parent, and this number is growing. HIV and Aids have dramatically increased children’s vulnerability in recent years.

The relief effort is becoming more complex with each passing day,

This was a dairy cow, and dairy cows have IDs on them. The ID was traced back to the farm in Washington. It’s a dairy farm. And that farm now has been quarantined, and the...

We have to begin by addressing the underlying causes of exclusion and abuse.

Children are forced into prostitution, begging and soliciting, labor on plantations and in mines, markets, factories and domestic work.

No country or region is immune,

It is critical that the world unite for children and unite against AIDS. The size of the problem is staggering, but the scale of the response has been inadequate.

It’s been studied to the point where we know that the impact on humans would be from consuming the most infected parts of the cow; that is, the brain and the spinal cord.

To ensure that children are protected, the abuse and exploitation of children must be brought to light and those who violate children brought to justice.

We know that children under 18 are about half of the population in the affected areas. And therefore we think that about half of the victims, either injured or the dead, have been children.

Unsafe water, inadequate sanitation and poor hygiene habits play a major role in child mortality. Bringing basic services to Africa’s women and girls could transform their lives and boost child survival in the region.

Nearly 25 years into the pandemic, this very visible disease continues to have an invisible face and that is the face of the child.

Now, the impact on export markets – we export about 10 percent of what we produce, so obviously that will probably have some impact on the market. At this point it’s too early to determine...

Part of what this report does is to highlight the issue to the public to create an outrage about what is going on.

The issues facing the farmers and ranchers today are complex and challenging,

no specific position has been taken on that proposal.

In the past quarter of a century, HIV/Aids has claimed the lives of more than 20 million people and lowered life expectancy in the hardest-hit countries by as much as 30 years,

I think that’s unjustified criticism. We have had a number of measures in place in this country for several years to mitigate the possibility of mad cow spreading in this country. We have found a...

With wintry conditions arriving in the higher elevations, children are facing a potentially deadly combination of cold, malnutrition, and disease,

One important thing to remember is that muscle cuts of meat have almost no risk,

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

But the fact of the matter is that all scientific evidence would show, based upon what we know about this disease, that muscle cuts – that is, the meat of the animal itself – should...

A whole generation has never known a world free of HIV and Aids, yet the magnitude of the problem dwarfs the scale of the response so far.

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.

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.

I am honored and humbled to be asked to join your administration, and to serve with you and your qualified team. Agriculture is part of the fabric that makes America great.

We are, in an abundance of caution, beginning, as of last night, a recall of that product. And we’re tracing forward to see where that product went.

I think it’s important that, as a matter of course, the brain and spinal column were removed from this cow, and that would be the material that would cause concern in terms of human health....

It’s devastating to see … all the buildings that have fallen down, to see people’s lives completely shattered, to see a tent next to a house that was there,

I have to say that in this particular cow that we’re dealing with, those parts of the cow were removed, and so we don’t think there’s any risk or very negligible risk to human health...

There is a potential for widespread disease, greater malnutrition and the displacement of significant numbers of people.

Given the current situation, we are not prepared to lift any restrictions at this time,

We know the farm that it had been on, and we will track back to see where it was originally purchased and what farm it was born on.

The demand for beef in Canada remains strong because I think people in America, in North America, know that we have a very strong food safety system and that our food is safe to eat.