Day 114 - 04 Apr 95 - Page 56


     
     1        have, in fact, been goaded, if you like to use suitable
     2        terms, and prodded by customer/consumer interests.
     3
     4   MS. STEEL:   No further questions.
     5
     6   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes, thank you.
     7
     8        ^^            Cross-examined by Mr. Rampton.
     9
    10   Q.   Dr. Long, I apologise if sometimes my muttering is
    11        distracting, it is not fair, I quite understand that,
    12        though I hope you do not mind my remarking that you will
    13        not suffer from sunshine on your head.
    14        A.  Thank you very much, neither, I think, will you!
    15
    16   Q.   Not if I wear this I will not.  Dr. Long, are you research
    17        adviser to VEGA?
    18        A.  Yes.
    19
    20   Q.   Can you tell me precisely what that role entails?
    21        A.  I investigate matters of farming, food, health and the
    22        land for an organisation that represents, essentially,
    23        vegetarian interests and environmental interests, so it has
    24        a lot of concern for animal welfare and nutrition and food
    25        production.
    26
    27   Q.   I am only interested, you understand, for present purposes
    28        in your role in relation to animal welfare?
    29        A.  Yes.
    30
    31   Q.   Is your concern of animal welfare a long-standing thing?
    32        I think you said your mother was a figure in the RSPCA?
    33        A.  Yes.
    34
    35   Q.   You I think told us that you first became involved in
    36        animal welfare in the late 1940s?
    37        A.  Yes.  I was involved with pets.  The RSPCA had a lot to
    38        do with pets, so I was living in household where there was
    39        a lot of concern for animal welfare of one sort or another.
    40
    41   Q.   Before you broke away and joined VEGA or formed VEGA,
    42        I know not, you were with the Vegetarian Society?
    43        A.  Yes.
    44
    45   Q.   Was your role with that society of the same character?
    46        A.  Yes.
    47
    48   Q.   When did you first become concerned with farm animals?
    49        A.  I became concerned as soon as I began, I think, after
    50        World War II, so it was going back to the late 1940s, 
    51        particularly because I lived fairly near a livestock 
    52        market. 
    53
    54   Q.   Where was that?
    55        A.  Southall, the market was at Southall.
    56
    57   Q.   Southall in Middlesex?
    58        A.  Yes.
    59
    60   Q.   I do not suppose it has one any more, has it?

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