But we also know that as we are moving towards the elimination of all SRM product in the beef industry—we're doing it here in Canada—the U.S. is not following suit. Is that giving us an advantage? I hope it is, and I think we're moving in the right direction. We need to do that, but are we going to have an advantage in Taiwan and Japan and China and some of these countries because we've moved in this direction? Is the confidence level any greater because of that, or are we simply playing to the demands of consumerism today around the world, at the expense of farmers, the primary producers, again?
What really manifested itself in the report that was done was the way the farmers received money, and the packers ultimately got it because the packers were the beneficiaries of many of those programs. You said that it has to be delivered early. How can we rationalize giving early payment when in fact it sets the precedent for packers to understand what farmers are getting and therefore price downward so that they can recapture some of that money? That happened; you know it, I know it, and the industry knows it. So how can we get beyond that?