As much as we might like to recoup our costs, that's not something we can arbitrarily do. It's a highly competitive business.

We had not had highly pathogenic avian influenza in the U.S. for over 20 years.

I totally acknowledge that I've had a lot of misdemeanors, ... It's not something I'm particularly proud of. Twenty-two years ago I got into trouble. But I've turned my life around. I live a good, straight life, and I help a lot of people.

To be absolutely ruthless, what's going on in the Middle East is terrible but it's not going to effect the earnings of many European and U.S. companies,

It's not cheap, I can tell you that. We never talk about costs.

The ninety-nine cent price of a fast-food hamburger simply doesn't take account of that meal's true cost--to soil, oil, public health, the public purse, etc., costs which are never charged directly to the consumer but, indirectly and invisibly, to the taxpayer (in the form of subsidies), the health care system (in the form of food-borne illnesses and obesity), and the environment (in the form of pollution), not to mention the welfare of the workers in the feedlot and the slaughterhouse and the welfare of the animals themselves.