"The goal is to normalize trade relations based on sound science and consumer protection." ― Mike Johanns Topic(s): Science More From Mike Johanns "We’re going to do everything possible to make sure that food safety is always paramount, and that we work with the industry as aggressively as we can to make sure that we’re paying attention to the food-safety issues." "The world is really figuring BSE out, and that’s positive." "Food safety involves everybody in the food chain." More In Science "I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty."― Bill Gates "I have experienced healing through other writers’ poetry, but there’s no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I’ll write a bad poem."― Marilyn Hacker "We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible."― Edmund Husserl