Daily Inspiration Quote by Ann Veneman

Veneman’s sentence is a masterclass in bureaucratic reassurance: it sounds like a warning, but it’s engineered to narrow the zone of panic. The key move is that calm, clinical opener - “It’s been studied to the point where we know” - which borrows the authority of science without naming the studies, the uncertainties, or the policy fights underneath. “To the point” is doing quiet work here: it implies the question is basically settled, or settled enough to act, even if the public is still learning what prions are and why “mad cow” landed like a cultural thunderclap.

The specificity is strategic. By concentrating risk in “the most infected parts” and then defining them as “the brain and the spinal cord,” she implicitly frames the rest of the cow as governable, inspectable, safely partitioned. That’s not just a medical claim; it’s a political one. It reassures consumers that a steak is not a neurological gamble and reassures industry that the entire system doesn’t need to be treated as contaminated. The phrase “impact on humans would be from consuming” also shifts the story from production failure to individual exposure, narrowing responsibility to a particular act rather than a supply chain.

Context matters: this kind of language typically appears when public trust is fragile and markets are twitchy. Veneman isn’t only communicating risk; she’s managing it - translating a scary, invisible threat into a set of removable parts, a checklist, a regulatory fix. The subtext is containment: of disease, of outrage, of economic fallout.