Day 269 - 25 Jun 96 - Page 80
1 A. No, no, no. They act as a guide.
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3 Q. Butter, my calculation is that he take about 14 grammes per
4 day per person, the Germans 20 and the French 23. Those
5 are also significant differences from the dietary point of
6 view are they not?
7 A. Yes.
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9 Q. Again, with milk we outscore the Germans, we are about 360
10 grammes per day for milk and they are about 300, whereas
11 the French are 400. Perhaps, not much difference there.
12 A. Yes.
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14 Q. Meat, including poultry. Now there you have to go -- I am
15 coming back to margarine. I have not forgotten margarine
16 in view of what you said a moment ago.
17 A. Have we done butter?
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19 Q. I have done butter. If you go down to total fat and oils,
20 forget it.
21 A. I am slightly worried about the butter figures because
22 the experience I have is that, yes, Ireland may consume a
23 lot of butter but Denmark exports it all.
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25 Q. There are not many Danes, that is the answer?
26 A. Yes.
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28 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Is not Mr. Rampton right? They do produce an
29 awful lot of butter?
30 A. They produce a lot of butter.
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32 Q. But they eat a lot of it but produce so much they export a
33 lot too?
34 A. They have always exported a lot of butter.
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36 MR. RAMPTON: They export a lot of pig meat too?
37 A. I mean, the experience I have with Denmark, and this
38 has to be anecdotal, I have not seen people eating much
39 butter in Denmark.
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41 MR. RAMPTON: Go back to your French experience. In comparison
42 with us they eat absolutely tons of the stuff?
43 A. They have butter with their bread at breakfast time,
44 but they do not have butter with their lunch at lunchtime.
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46 Q. It depends what part of France you are in. Normandy they
47 do?
48 A. They are the high risk reasons.
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50 MR. JUSTICE BELL: But you basically have no reason to doubt
51 these figures?
52 A. No. I am rather worried about disappearance figures
53 because you are not quite sure--
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55 Q. I accept that, but we have got to be very careful about
56 depending on our own individual experience?
57 A. I would not want to depend on that, my Lord.
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59 MR. RAMPTON: I do want to finish this afternoon. If I can drop
60 down to total fats and oils and then go across to total
