I fully support Laurent and his comments.
Mr. Easter, I think some of your questions are valid, such as the question of country-of-origin labelling and the opportunity to just stand up and say no. It continues to be a fear of ours. Currently we have the U.S. market back. It's beneficial to the livestock sector and the meat sector, although not the hog sector.
I think, Brian, you brought up that we have to look at diversifying our country for long-term sustainability.
I think market access to new markets--and when I say “new”, I'm not talking about the traditional Asian markets. Korea is probably putting us at a disadvantage of $25 a head, because we don't have the seventh fleet to move in or what have you. We don't have that political power. I think we do well for our country. We produce a good product. One of the things we could do urgently for the pig sector, and this is just me talking to you--I guess I can't do that, because this is public--is spend serious marketing dollars in the United States.
My biggest concern with the United States, and we still don't have that question answered.... We have a balanced agricultural trade with them, uniquely enough; at least the last time I looked at the graph it was close enough. When they came out with the country-of-origin labelling, I just didn't understand why they'd want to do it to us. That's the big question. I say that tongue-in-cheek. It's protectionism. I'll leave it like that.
But I think we could market the shit out of our product. We have a good product to sell.