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     1        not need to eat throughout a whole 24-hour period.
     2
     3   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Unless there is a question you must ask
     4        before we adjourn, we will break off until 2 o'clock.
     5
     6                            (Luncheon Adjournment)
     7
     8   MS. STEEL:  Can I just say that before lunch I said I had a
     9        recall of Dr. Gregory saying something about problems with
    10        aggression.  I think that may actually have been to do with
    11        the lighting levels rather than the hours it was left on.
    12        But, in any event, the witness said he was not aware of it
    13        anyway.
    14
    15   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes, all right.
    16
    17   MS. STEEL:  Continuous lighting results in boredom eating
    18        sometimes, does it not?
    19        A.  I do not know how much birds would really eat out of
    20        boredom.  There is no doubt that modern broiler strains do
    21        have a big capacity for eating, but there must be a finite
    22        limit, I would have thought; and I honestly do not know
    23        whether they eat out of boredom or not.
    24
    25   Q.   Is that something that you are -- I mean, you have heard of
    26        boredom eating, the expression "boredom eating"?
    27        A.  No, I have not.
    28
    29   Q.   You have not?  The book that you edited, did you read all
    30        of it when you were editing it?
    31        A.  Of course.
    32
    33   Q.   It mentions boredom eating in there, does it not?
    34        A.  That does not refer to broilers though.
    35
    36   Q.   I do not really know what to do.  I have only one copy of
    37        the book.
    38
    39   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, if we had been, as we should have been
    40        (if this is a relevant topic), then we should have been
    41        forewarned that Ms. Steel wanted to rely on it in
    42        cross-examination, as it has been my habit to do throughout
    43        this case and in any other case, then we would have
    44        provided a sufficient number of copies.
    45
    46   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  How long is the passage?
    47
    48   MS. STEEL:  It is quite short.  I can hand it up to the witness.
    49
    50   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I suggest to just stick a Post-it on with a 
    51        marker on the Post-it so you can see where it is.  Just 
    52        hand it over to Mr. Rampton for a moment, and then ----- 
    53
    54   MR. RAMPTON:  I wonder, my Lord, whether if Ms. Steel is going
    55        to make more than one reference to this book, I funnily
    56        enough, reading the transcript of Dr. Gregory's evidence
    57        the other day, I noticed that your Lordship did give --
    58        I know your Lordship hates the word "homily" -- but some
    59        kind of a friendly explanation to the Defendants about the
    60        necessity to indicate in advance of cross-examination --

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