Day 241 - 26 Apr 96 - Page 51


     
     1        notes, the most significant of which in my sheet is on the
     2        first page, which includes the phrase in the centre of it
     3         -- I do not know if it is your page, the same page number,
     4        it has a little "2" in the bottom right-hand corner,
     5        "Exgua", which we take to be Exguapagua, "sells to
     6        supplier who sells to McDonald's".  If that can be made a
     7        note that it is in the context of export of beef to the
     8        USA.
     9
    10        I will not read out any other notes which were
    11        contemporaneous notes from 1979.
    12
    13        Then we have the statement from Dr. Nations on Conservation
    14        International headed notepaper to me dated September 14th
    15        1995 and signed by him.
    16
    17        "Mr. Morris, this letter certifies that I have re-examined
    18        the text of my 1983 published article, 'Rainforests and the
    19        Hamburger Society' Environment volume 25(3), 1983,
    20        co-authored with Daniel Komer, and that I still consider it
    21        to be an accurate description of reality as based on my
    22        investigation of the Latin American beef trade during the
    23        early 1980s.
    24
    25        "As well, despite several inquiries, I have not found any
    26        employee of Conservation International who claims to have
    27        reviewed McDonald's records of beef sources" . Does
    28        everybody have the same article?  It is "Rainforests and
    29        the Hamburger Society".  It should be behind it.  It is in
    30        the original Defendants' documents.
    31
    32   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I have a note that it was document No. 16 in
    33        your original list.
    34
    35   MR. MORRIS:  Yes, it might be.
    36
    37   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  But I also have a copy which is immediately
    38        behind.
    39
    40   MR. MORRIS:  Do you have one with this picture down the
    41        right-hand side on the front page?
    42
    43   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.
    44
    45   MR. MORRIS:  It might be No. 15.  This one has a little "15" on
    46        it.  It is 15, I think.  There were two versions of it and
    47        this is the version he has verified from the paper
    48        Environment.  It is actually No. 15.  I have cut it down
    49        quite substantially, but there is still a lot of what you
    50        might call general expert opinion there which has not 
    51        appeared in other statements. 
    52 
    53        I will read the introduction:  "By Dr. James Nations and
    54        Daniel Comer".  This is 1983.  "Few Americans associate
    55        fast-food hamburgers or TV dinners with the eradication of
    56        Central America's tropical rainforests, but for more than
    57        30 years the United States' appetite for cheap imported
    58        beef has been a critical factor in the future of those
    59        forests.
    60

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