Thank you, Mr. Prince.
I'll just pick up on that, because I think that's the critical part, quite honestly. It leads me to my comment. Maybe I'll have a question at the end of it.
We've listened to witnesses, and a little earlier we had comments come from the Beef Information Centre about the irradiation of meat. Then we had witnesses before us from Bioniche, who were here to promote their E. coli vaccine. As a company, they basically have come forward and asked the government to bankroll their test programs for the vaccine.
We're talking about irradiation of food and giving another vaccine to animals so that it will help in terms of food safety. I just wonder, when we actually just go back to having what we have produced in Canada, which is safe food, and just take that through the monitoring systems we've got, like HACCP and CVS, which is part of HACCP, I'm concerned, quite honestly, with the public perception of what might be happening when we start doing stuff to food that normally isn't done. It's all in the context of food safety. We're going to irradiate it now, or we're going to give vaccines to something else, so that we have less influence upon what we think is a natural product.
We had witnesses in here earlier tonight who were even concerned about some farm practices, even though we know farm practices have become better. Animals are better protected, better served now, have better diets now. Farmers are concerned more about the environment now than I think they ever have been, and contribute more to the environment than they ever have. Yet, if we continue to want to add stuff to our food system, I get concerned about the perception of what our consumers are going to think about our food.
Can you talk to me a little bit about what you think the effectiveness is of the conclusions of your test, and what the effectiveness of this vaccine would be on food safety?
