International Trade committee  Maybe I'll get a raise out of that. I think you're right. We don't sit around and wait for the phone to ring. When we have a view on something, we find out who is working on it and we get engaged. I was trying to make myself a little note of how many of the TPP negotiating ses

International Trade committee  Oh, yes, we want to be there because the negotiation goes through a life cycle. In the early days, they're trying to figure out the priorities and what they are trying to achieve. They can only achieve things if people tell them what they are. Then the middle of the negotiation g

International Trade committee  You know, I may have been here 27 times.

International Trade committee  I think what I said was that this committee has had 27 meetings on this subject, not necessarily that I've been to them, but anyway.

International Trade committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for the invitation to be here this morning. There's always a lot of important work being done at this committee, and we're always pleased to be here. It is really important, and I want to commend the committee for doing such an extensive consultation wit

Environment committee  There certainly are. I probably couldn't name them all off the top of my head here for you, but we can follow up with that. There are a number of things. I mentioned our award program to reward people for doing the right things. You hear a number of things.... For example, you

Environment committee  There is a scenario where, again, very well-intentioned.... They wanted to focus on one aspect, humane treatment of animals. Of course, that is a huge concern of ours, but we want to look at it in the whole context of sustainability. We have been working on taking our verified be

Environment committee  I guess we just have to remember what was happening before the Europeans came, settled, and domesticated the land. The buffalo were there and the native people were there. The practice of having cattle on the land is replicating what was natural before we were out there. If Bob

Environment committee  I think that's a really excellent point. It's not that people are out to get you or anything like that. It's that people who are very well intentioned tend to focus on a single issue or a single aspect of sustainability. I think the example you just gave about climate change....

Environment committee  It's all of these things. I think that sometimes you get into these adversarial aspects when you have one group that is trying to achieve one of those objectives and one group trying to achieve another one, but sometimes it's a balance between the two. One of the things we've t

Environment committee  That is a thing we ask ourselves a lot. We think it comes from people who have an agenda or who make Hollywood movies, those sorts of things. People tend to get their information from celebrities as opposed to scientists. We encourage people to come out and see. We encourage the

Environment committee  I don't know why people.... They think what they think.

Environment committee  I think the good news is that there are a lot of people who do know better. They are out there, and that is the sort of thing we are trying to encourage. I think one of the things we have seen in the past—and the notes talk a bit about it—is that you have to take a holistic app

Environment committee  Thank you. I'm going to jump down to the summary. One of the things that Bob really wanted to express was a concern over some of the misinformation that's out there about the beef industry. With regard to the beef industry globally, people have tried to project a certain image

Environment committee  Thank you. I feel like the understudy coming in.