Thank you all for making your presentations.
I actually don't even know where to begin.
Mr. Smith and Ms. Hansen have expressed a very serious indictment of practices in the industry, such as feeding antibiotics to healthy animals, and the overuse of unprescribed antibiotics. Obviously it is a serious situation in the country if you can find some presence of antibiotic resistance in two-thirds of the chickens sampled across the country, and some of them have up to seven or eight antibiotics present.
So is the industry prepared to voluntarily--because we don't have a law at this point--stop using antibiotics, at least on healthy chickens and other healthy animals?