Ann Veneman Quotations

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 how much.

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

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.

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 not cause any risk to human health.

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

We are extremely encouraged by the vision and leadership shown by the OIC and ISESCO in mobilizing Islamic countries to accelerate progress for children. UNICEF shares their commitment and stands ready to work with them to ensure their actions have a practical impact and generate concrete results for children.

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

I think it's a little early to tell what the economic impact will be. This year our cattle prices have been particularly high. The demand for beef has remained strong in this country, even though there was the single find in Canada earlier this year.

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 single case.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. And therefore we're confident in the safety of the food supply.

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.

We are doing everything we can to protect the food supply. And I can tell you that we're making decisions based upon sound science and good public policy, given the circumstances that we are now in.

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 of human health problem is very, very small.

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.

Its 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.

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 thing to do.

Few things have more impact than nutrition on a child's ability to survive, learn effectively and escape a life of poverty.

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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.

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.

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.

We are estimating that at least 17,000 pupils were killed in schools, that's the one number that we have some estimate on.

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 owners have been very cooperative in doing that.

no specific position has been taken on that proposal.

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.

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.

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,

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.

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

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,

The severe drought may not be receiving the same amount of attention as other emergencies. The international community must respond immediately to the need for assistance.

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

The fear is that we could lose thousands of people additionally to diarrhoea, disease and injuries that are not treated. It's absolutely urgent that as much aid gets in as possible. This is an area that will get much colder as the winter comes and the people are going to need shelter and blankets.

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.

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 with this particular incident.

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,

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

I certainly, with no hesitation, would say that every mother can feel confident that they can feed their children beef in this country,

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 happened before very much was known about it.

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.

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.

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