Richard Lobb
Richard Lobb
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What concerns me is the mixing of birds from different places in one spot. We warn the farmers who work with our industry to have absolutely no dealings with the live-bird markets.
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The trend is going in the wrong direction. The industry is concerned about this as well. These are our plants, this is our problem, and this is our challenge.
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This is certainly the biggest issue facing the industry today, no question about that.
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This is the first program to cover the commercial industry as comprehensively as we are doing. We are gratified that 90 percent of the producers have signed up for the program, and more will come in as we go along.
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I'm not defending it, and we are concerned about consumer perceptions, but the fact of the matter is, cooking destroys any virus, so canned food, as long as the canning is done properly, doesn't present any food safety problem.
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Exactly how that works, what the practical impact on immediate trade will be, we're still trying to find out. We certainly want it resolved as soon as possible.
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We just want to assure people of the safety of the food supply.
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First of all, we don't have it in the U.S. and we're doing everything to keep it out, ... If we have an outbreak, we could contain it. If we had to kill 5 million birds to eradicate it, that's still a very small number of our total annual production.
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Even if we did have an outbreak, which is unlikely, it's going to be very limited. And the number of birds involved will be very small.
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This thing has spread like wildfire in Southeast Asia and now in Nigeria, but conditions are totally different. You walk into a rural village and there are chickens running all over the place.
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There's nothing more that consumers should be doing that they aren't doing already.
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The timing is a mystery to us. We did not seek this rule. We're not objecting to it, but we didn't support it, either.
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Any flock ... with avian influenza will be destroyed on the farm.
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But we're not waiting for signs to show up.