No, it's not that. It's that there are lots of improvements that need to be made everywhere, as new technologies are implemented, as new lab testing equipment becomes available for faster tests, for instance. There was a study done by Agriculture Canada last year that looked at the profits of the food sector, in general, in Canada, not just the meat sector. They concluded that from the years 1999 to 2008, the profits from the industry were consistently lower than other manufacturing industries and the industry's debt-to-equity ratio was consistently higher than total manufacturing.
On October 5th, 2010. See this statement in context.