Day 095 - 02 Mar 95 - Page 17
1 A. What tab number, please?
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3 Q. 114. You have got that?
4 A. OK.
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6 Q. A letter dated January 24th 1989?
7 A. Yes, I see it.
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9 Q. Which is about a Shareholder Proposal of the American
10 Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to be
11 brought up at McDonald's Corporation shareholders'
12 meeting. If you could turn to page 4 of that document?
13 A. Yes.
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15 Q. You see the sixth paragraph down which is indented?
16 A. Yes.
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18 Q. It says that: "60 per cent of all hogs are now housed
19 intensively in total confinement". The reference for that
20 is Farm Animals: Husbandry, Behaviour and veterinary
21 Practice.
22 A. Yes.
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24 Q. Would you accept those figures or do you think -----
25 A. Yes, I would.
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27 Q. Would you accept the figures given in the paragraph above
28 as well: "35.6 million cattle raised annually for food in
29 the US, 88 million pigs, 220 laying hens and an estimated 5
30 billion broilers chickens"?
31 A. OK, you have to go -----
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33 Q. Approximately, would you accept, that was 1987?
34 A. OK. I am a little bit confused about that entire
35 statement. When it says "product testing" I do not know
36 what they mean.
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38 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No, you are not being asked about that.
39 A. OK. The animals -- cattle, yes.
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41 MS. STEEL: In the final paragraph in the middle it says: "The
42 company itself says it uses more than one billion Grade A
43 large eggs per year", you would accept that, would you?
44 A. If the company says that, yes. I do not know how many.
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46 Q. There is a reference given?
47 A. Yes, OK.
48
49 Q. On the following page it says: "National humane
50 organisations have identified factory farming as among the
51 most significant issues of animal protection". Is that
52 something that you are aware of?
53 A. It is a broad statement. What national humane
54 organisation? I cannot tell you. I am aware there is a
55 concern, yes, there is. I have concerns with animals that
56 are in confinement as well as those that are not in
57 confinement.
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59 Q. Were you aware that in April 1988 the Farm Animal Reform
60 Movement picketed the opening of McDonald's 10,000th
