I'll take a couple of minutes, and then Mary will speak.
We share exactly your sentiment and you know, P.E.I. actually was GMO-free for one day. The legislative committee met six years ago. They had made the decision based on what the people of Prince Edward Island.... And I must say there were presentations to the legislative committee from all over the world. It was the largest legislative hearing in the history of the province. It hasn't been matched since. It demonstrated clearly that people were thinking the way you were thinking, that this has a huge potential impact on the environment, for health, and for markets, for all foods in Prince Edward Island including beef. Monsanto came in overnight, met with two of the leading members of the government, and by the next afternoon the decision was taken that Prince Edward Island would not be a GMO-free province.
We're keeping up the pressure, but local elected politicians, with the exception of one or two, do not share our view for the province. It's foolhardy. They're now developing soybeans, and coexistence in soybeans is an impossibility, but the market is Asia. They're sending out the GMO-free ones. There's a huge market. In the wintertime, the others are being fed to your wonderful beef and other animals that will be contaminated.
So I think the federal government, particularly Agriculture Canada, must listen to many natural and organic farmers in this country. And Prince Edward Island is precisely the place to begin a huge new experiment in growing food that's safe, free from pesticides, and free from chemical fertilizers, so that we can have beef and other products that are free of genetically modified organisms.