Day 095 - 02 Mar 95 - Page 53
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2 MR. RAMPTON: Do you have yellow 14?
3 A. Yes.
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5 Q. Would you please turn to tab 53? Would you just please
6 look at it?
7 A. Yes.
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9 Q. Do you notice its date? It is April 21st 1983?
10 A. I have May.
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12 Q. That is the top right-hand. That is the date of receipt.
13 The date of sending appears to be April 21st 1983. Would
14 you just, please, read it to yourself and tell me when you
15 have finished and then I will ask you a question. You will
16 notice it comes from somebody called Richard Lowe who is
17 expressed to be the Managing Director of McDonald's Costa
18 Rica.
19 A. Yes.
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21 Q. Do you think you have seen that letter before or not?
22 A. I do not remember it.
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24 Q. Can I ask you, please, to turn to tab 64? This comes from
25 the same gentleman. It is a month later, 25th May 1983.
26 It is addressed to Fred Turner at McDonald's Oak Brook.
27 Again, please read it to yourself concentrating on the
28 third paragraph.
29 A. I have a vague recollection of this memo.
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31 Q. Do you know or do you think or are you uncertain whether
32 that is one of the documents that you mentioned when you
33 were here in December?
34 A. Yes. I remember we had some discussions about some
35 meat companies exporting to ----
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37 Q. That is what the cross-examination was about, the
38 suggestion being that Coope Montecillos had exported beef
39 for use by McDonald's in the USA. You remember that?
40 A. Yes, right.
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42 MR. JUSTICE BELL: So in answer to Mr. Rampton's question you
43 think this may have been one of the documents you saw, do
44 you?
45 A. Yes. What I distinctly remember is that it was
46 addressed to Mr. Fred Turner and I remember seeing BK, that
47 they were supplying to Costa Rica, from Costa Rica to them.
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49 MR. RAMPTON: You can put that one away, please, Dr. Gomez
50 Gonzalez, whether it is permanently or not I am afraid
51 I cannot tell you at the moment. I want to take up some
52 more recent things. Can I ask you this first. Looking
53 into your recent memory and calling to mind as much of that
54 film that we looked at this morning and this afternoon as
55 you can, you will recall that you said in answer to his
56 Lordship that you thought the spread out or density of
57 animals in the feed lots was fairly typical, yes?
58 A. Yes.
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60 Q. Leaving that on one side, what, if anything, in that film
