Day 276 - 09 Jul 96 - Page 38
1 exhausted, and I have been for well over a year now, and,
2 you know, that does make it sometimes very difficult to,
3 well, it just makes you sometimes short fused.
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5 So, I just say that I do not like, I do not actually
6 like, being short fused. In fact, over the past year or
7 so, I have probably had to apologise more times than ever
8 in my life, in the whole of my life put together, because
9 of sometimes being a bit short fused.
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11 The other point is that obviously how I behave in a
12 court case which is run in an adversarial system where we
13 are not represented but the other party is, obviously, you
14 know, we have to be argumentative, we have to argue our
15 side of the case, because nobody is arguing it for us. So,
16 you know, that is completely different to -- and because
17 our future is at stake. Unlike anybody else in the
18 courtroom you know, nobody else's future is at stake
19 really. I mean, McDonald's is the other party but they are
20 not a person, they are a corporation and they do not have
21 personal feelings, apart from the fact that they are not
22 representing themselves anyway, so their, I don't know,
23 their personality would not come across. Well, I just
24 think it is different.
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26 The other thing in terms of about anything else is
27 just really to say that, also, the other thing is that in
28 1989 and 1990 I was six years younger and considerably less
29 confident than I am now, or have been effectively forced to
30 become because of having to defend myself in court. I
31 think there is only a couple of things left.
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33 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I was not going to take a break this
34 afternoon because it is a short afternoon, but if you think
35 you are coming towards the end of what you want to say, I
36 will take a short break so that you can just check.
37 A. Do you want me to deal with the remaining points and
38 then do it?
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40 Q. What I suggest is deal with the points which you have
41 definitely got in mind then we will have just a five minute
42 break. You can add anything which comes to mind during the
43 break.
44 A. Yes.
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46 Q. And then, if there is any time left, as there may be, we
47 will go straight to Mr. Morris asking you any questions he
48 wants to ask?
49 A. Okay. Just one thing that I remembered that I had
50 forgotten to say yesterday, which was another thing about
51 my beliefs and my views. When I was talking about
52 nutrition and the things I had read and what I believed, I
53 did not mention the fact that I have had a concern about
54 related matters such as pesticides and other residues, and
55 if I just say that since about 1989 I have been a member of
56 the Henry Doubleday Research Association, which promotes
57 organic growing of food, and that I used to have an
58 allotment in 1990/91 where, obviously, I grew food without
59 the use of chemicals. I mean, I have grown my own food
60 without the use of chemicals since then as well. When I
