Day 077 - 25 Jan 95 - Page 64


     
     1        of the page has copyright "McDonald's System Inc. 1978",
     2        has these words in the middle of the page "Ingredients
     3        absolutely not to be used, number 8 imported beef", do you
     4        see that?
     5        A.  Yes.
     6
     7   Q.   When this document came to you from, you think, Keystone
     8        Foods, how did you cope with that paragraph 8?
     9        A.  Well, I knew this was a document written for the United
    10        States of America, not for England.
    11
    12   Q.   At this date 1978 or indeed 1979, were you conscious
    13        whether or not there was any issue about McDonald's use of
    14        or not use of beef from rainforest land or recently
    15        deforested rainforest land?
    16        A.  No.
    17
    18   Q.   Does that mean that you did not ----
    19        A.  I did not know.
    20
    21   Q.   You were not aware of it?
    22        A.  I was not aware of it.
    23
    24   Q.   Can you turn back, please, to the previous tab which should
    25        be 4.  It should start with a letter dated 11th March 1983
    26        from McDonald's, the previous tab of the same file.  Have
    27        you got, Mr. Walker, a letter dated 11th March 1987?
    28        A.  To Mr. Mayes.
    29
    30   Q.   Is it signed by you?
    31        A.  Yes, it is.
    32
    33   Q.   As Managing Director of McKey Food Services Limited?
    34        A.  Yes, it is.
    35
    36   Q.   At that date can you remember, roughly speaking, what
    37        percentage of McKey's was owned by McDonald's, at any rate,
    38        a majority?
    39        A.  I am pretty sure at that stage it was 72 per cent.
    40
    41   Q.   Yes, with 28 per cent in the hands of yourself?
    42        A.  Yes.
    43
    44   Q.   This is a letter, and you will be relieved to hear I am not
    45        going to ask you to go all through these letters by any
    46        means, I refer you to them so one can get an idea of the
    47        chronology.  Do you understand?
    48        A.  Yes.
    49
    50   Q.   Before I do that, can you tell us in just in a very few 
    51        sentences what the balance sheet beef is or was? 
    52        A.  The Commission in Brussels looks at the availability of 
    53        meat throughout the whole community for the next year, they
    54        calculate requirements, and if the calculation shows that
    55        they are short of meat in the forthcoming year they allow a
    56        tonnage of meat to balance.  They will allow a tonnage of
    57        meat to come in from outside the community, and it is
    58        referred to as "balance sheet meat".
    59
    60   Q.   How is balance sheet beef distinguished from what is

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