My first thought is that if we actually had that type of legislation and saw its impact, we would find the impact to be extremely negative to the cattle producers. One of the things we learned very early on was that this industry is based on capital and the amount of money in it, and when you remove capital you lower prices. It's our personal belief that there would be a very negative effect from that. Some producer groups maybe have not considered that.
On a personal level, my grandfather immigrated here in 1930. My father fed cattle. We've been in the business the whole time. He was a very small cattle feeder. My brother and I started out driving three-ton trucks and feeding 500 cattle when we were 16 years old.
Our system allows you to grow and develop. I struggle tremendously when I'm in the media or when people say I have a big company. I like to think of Star Wars, where they're in the ship being chased by a huge fish that's going to swallow their sub, and suddenly another fish chews that one up. There's always a bigger fish, and in my life I've learned that. There's always someone bigger and always someone smaller. Our goal has been to do the best we can for our customers, and we have been rewarded by having the size of company we have.