Tim Johnson: “Would you agree that the law prohibits on-farm mandatory animal identification and does not permit third-party mandates…”

The purpose of this funding is to ensure that the industry works to minimize pain and suffering of defenseless animals.

I would hope that our USDA will be very aggressive in working with Canada in that regard.

This is one report that I hope will not be one of those gathering dust reports, but will be truly an impetus to very major action on the part of this committee and this Congress.

And that self-verification is indeed what we do in many other labeling circumstances, whether it is school lunch programs and all kinds of other things, Black Angus, you name it.