Madam Chair, yes, I think there is an argument to do more testing. The point that I have been trying to make in my remarks is that we are too wedded to the American market for our own good. We should be looking beyond the American border. Yes, it has been fine over the past while, it has looked good, and I think the industry said, “Let's just keep it going”.
I would like us to be in a position where countries like Japan and European countries would want to buy our beef because they would be satisfied, they would be persuaded that we had an excellent product that people around the world would want to buy. So far I do not think the industry sees it that way and that is the unfortunate thing.
I do not know about the spontaneity. I think animal feed is the reality here.
The other thing I would say to the member in passing, and I am looking at the Chair, is maybe we need a lawyer on the agriculture committee to help us with the Competition Bureau or other challenges.
The reality is with 330 million people in the United States, they can eat their way out of a lot more problems than we can, with 30-odd million. The fact of the matter is that our industry is predicated on exporting 60% or 70% of our product, most of it to the United States. We should be diversifying.