Day 037 - 14 Oct 94 - Page 35


     
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     2   Q.   You say they have adopted it by purporting to give
     3        nutritional advice?
     4        A.  Exactly, thank you.
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     6   MR. MORRIS:  Not only do they give nutritional advice, but does
     7        it not imply in this statement they have chosen "to help
     8        our customers eat a healthy balanced diet"?
     9        A.  Yes, of course it does.
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    11   Q.   If we leave that document now and go back to your
    12        statement, you say:  "If the Plaintiffs were as genuinely
    13        interested in promoting healthy eating as they profess to
    14        be", with that last statement from that document seem to
    15        be one of those indications?
    16        A.  Yes, absolutely.
    17
    18   Q.   "I would expect to see" and then you say what kind of --
    19        you read out the sections from your statement or matters
    20        you want to see?
    21        A.  I would make those two points.  I mean, the first
    22        point I think is something of -- there is very little
    23        absolutely universally agreed truth in the way of medicine
    24        and science in my encounters with those disciplines, but
    25        this certainly has to be one of them.  The importance of
    26        consuming more fresh vegetables, particularly green leafy
    27        vegetables, particularly vegetables that are orange and
    28        yellow, and they do not do this.  This is such an
    29        important point and they do not do it.  They sell salads,
    30        I understand, in some outlets.  They are not available in
    31        the outlets I have seen.
    32
    33        I have, however, looked at the analysis off a chef's salad
    34        in the booklets to which you previously referred, the one
    35        with the green cover.  It seems pretty extraordinary,
    36        because again salads traditionally are thought of as very
    37        healthy foods.  If you look at the amount of fat in that,
    38        it is ludicrously high.
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    40        I do not have a copy of it in front of me but, I mean,
    41        anybody can work out in a matter of moments what
    42        percentage of calories it derives from fat.  It seems an
    43        extraordinary perversion almost.  This is what we are
    44        talking about so many times here; meanings of words,
    45        semantics.  It seems an extraordinary perversion of the
    46        word "salad" to use it in connection with such a high food
    47        as the chef's salad is.
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    49   Q.   High-fat?
    50        A.   High-fat food, yes; quite amazing. 
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    52   Q.   Let us deal with one thing at a time.  You would like to 
    53        see an emphasis ----?
    54        A.  Yes.
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    56   Q.  - on the consumption of fresh vegetables?
    57        A.  That is right.  If they staked out their claim to be
    58        purveyors of healthy food to the nation, then they have an
    59        over-riding obligation to do this.
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