Sure.
I'm not a member of this committee. I'm sitting in for a colleague today. I am very interested in agriculture because I have a huge interest in the developing world. The United Nations says that 795 million people, or 10% of the world's population, are chronically undernourished.
Don't we need to look at ways to grow food faster, more efficiently? I know there are animals that are resistant to disease or that have an increased nutritional value for the consumers. I know there are studies in place on cattle that don't get mad cow disease or transmit it and on goats that produce milk containing an enzyme that could prevent deadly diarrhea in a million children each year.
Ms. Sharratt, could you comment on that? There seems to be a great deal of potential in terms of genetically modified animals for dealing with some very severe problems of poverty, and specifically undernourishment, in the developing world.