I'd like to thank the witnesses for coming in today to talk about public trust in our agricultural system. Basically public trust, I think, deals with three issues: how our food industry and what we eat deals with our health; environment; and what's becoming more of an issue—and I think we've started to discuss it today and in other meetings—is the whole issue of animal welfare.
Like Mr. Shipley, Ms. Sharratt and perhaps many Canadians are trying to grapple with what exactly GMO is and what gene splitting is. Can you tell us a little bit what a GMO product is?