"I am pleased to offer my testimony today in support of your bill, the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 2009."
"This bill would require the FDA to end the non-therapeutic use of antibiotics in livestock--a practice that is contributing to increasing prevalence of antibiotic-resistant diseases."
"I feel like all of the testimony that we have heard has reinforced this idea that this is something that we can change, that we are bringing this on ourselves, that our industry will survive, that wit..."
"Well, on this battlefield, it seems as if we are disarming ourselves."
"In my home State in California, we have been buffeted in recent years by outbreaks of salmonella and E. coli."
"Of the estimated 1.4 million people infected with salmonella each year, about one in five cases is resistant to antibiotics."