Even though we feel confident that the shipment did not originate from Tyson, there is no question that every participant in the industry is going to suffer from guilt from association.

I don't think there's any rabbit to pull out of a hat here. I think at this particular point in time we're looking at this as a real dose of reality. I think there's only so much he can do with what he's got unless he comes up with something spectacular.

History indicates that less than 10 percent of the meat recalled over a time period such as this is actually returned.

It has to be a link.

To see his name smacked through the mud, so to speak, was a tremendous blow to him. He's very vulnerable.

Despite its birth as a basic agricultural company, ADM has sent a message that its future lies in products surrounding energy, based on agricultural technology.

I think we saw a chastened Dwayne Andreas, one who took full responsibility for what happened.

I don't think that was a play to the crowd. I think he absolutely meant it.