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1 was not a good idea but then after he had become a
2 consultant for McDonald's he expressed the view in the
3 witness box that it was OK. Previously, he had also
4 advocated labelling and nutritional information on the fat
5 content of products should be on the... He had advocated
6 that it should be on the food products being sold. That
7 was in a report that he had written prior to becoming a
8 consultant for McDonald's.
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10 MR JUSTICE BELL: Is that the same one which was put to him at
11 the end of cross-examination?
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13 MS. STEEL: I think it might have been the same report. I am
14 not sure, but when we were cross-examining him he said that
15 he considered it unnecessary. Day 21, pages 43 to 44.
16 That was about it on that matter.
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18 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
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20 MS. STEEL: He seem to have tried to, sort of, water down his
21 views since he had become a consultant for McDonald's.
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23 There were a few extra points that I wanted to refer to for
24 Professor Crawford, which were actually in his statement,
25 which I don't think ever went in the transcripts. I think
26 the first time he gave evidence, we did not actually read
27 out the statement.
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29 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No, but did he not aver it as part of-----
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31 MS. STEEL: Yes, he did, it is just that when somebody else
32 read through the evidence of Professor Crawford for us, I
33 did not see any note of anything that he had said in his
34 statement. So I would like to draw particular attention to
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37 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I see, is this his first statement?
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39 MS. STEEL: Yes. On the second page of his statement he said
40 "I concur with the statement in the disputed leaflet that
41 a diet high in fat, sugar, animal products and salt,
42 sodium, and low if fibre is considered to be linked to
43 cancers of the breast, bowel and heart disease on the
44 assumption that the phrase 'animal products' is taken to
45 mean products from conventional farm animals. A McDonald's
46 meal is likely to fit the above description."
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48 The other point which is relevant in his statement,
49 particularly relevant, is that on the same page of his
50 statement he refers to the NATO workshop on dietary fats,
51 making the recommendation that food and agriculture
52 practices associated with a high mortality from heart
53 disease, breast and colon cancer of the western countries
54 should not be exported to developing countries where these
55 diseases were, at that time, not a problem. He went on to
56 say that the high profile advertising exuberant marketing
57 and invasion of urban centres by western foods and fast
58 food outlets such as McDonald's is seen as playing a
59 significant part in the introduction of these diseases
60 which are new to these parts of the world. So his view was
