Day 255 - 23 May 96 - Page 26
1 Q. You do not remember that at all?
2 A. No.
3
4 Q. It talks about the campaign against farm animals abuse as
5 well. You do not remember that at all?
6 A. No.
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8 Q. Do you remember the one underneath about The Northern Echo,
9 16th October 1989, Harrogate animal rights campaigners
10 picketing the store?
11 A. No.
12
13 Q. You do not remember it.
14 Tab 24, The Sunday Times, 15th October 1989, I think it is
15 the bottom one. I think it is something about chicken
16 Mcdeadlets coming down. Do you remember that one?
17 A. Vaguely, I do actually, but not a lot about it, no.
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19 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, it may be that the relevant bit is in the
20 middle line of that particular series of pictures at the
21 end.
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23 MS. STEEL: It is a ground up piece of ... bad for your heart,
24 antibiotic injected hormone-fed Brazilian rainforest
25 killing deceased, dismembered and decapitated cow".
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27 Do think you might remember this? Presumably a letter
28 would have been written to the ----
29 A. I do not know.
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31 Q. The Sunday Times?
32 A. I have no idea.
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34 Q. You do not remember anything apart from having seen it?
35 A. No. I vaguely remember The Sunday Times running this
36 cartoon thing but I cannot remember what we did about it.
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38 Q. McDonald's are not actually mentioned in there, are they?
39 A. Well, by inference they must be "McChicken".
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41 MR. JUSTICE BELL: There were "Mcdeadlets coming down".
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43 MS. STEEL: Right but that bit is not about the cow, so the bit
44 about "chicken Mcdeadlets coming down" is not ----
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46 MR. JUSTICE BELL: All I can say is if they chose to take
47 offence at it, I can see McDonald's might think it was
48 directed at them.
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50 MS. STEEL: But the two things might, I do not know, one is
51 about chicken and one is about a cow.
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53 MR. JUSTICE BELL: That is not the impression it would make on
54 me, I must say.
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56 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, I wonder if I could take 3 minutes just
57 before the adjournment. I really do think that I have to
58 make some kind of informal objection to this. We have got
59 now just over halfway through this file. It has taken us
60 an hour and three-quarter to achieve that.
