Day 069 - 19 Dec 94 - Page 27
1 A. I do not know. You have to tell me a specific case.
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3 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I think what he is saying -- I know it is
4 tiresome -- he cannot give a categoric answer ---
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6 MR. MORRIS: I was just pretty stunned that -----
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8 MR. JUSTICE BELL: -- or, rather, an overall answer. If you
9 have a particular country in mind where he said that they
10 do not supply to McDonald's -- for instance, Brazil was
11 one, was it not?
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13 MR. MORRIS: Yes. I did not want to go through them all again.
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15 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No, I appreciate that. What I think you must
16 not do is take what he said as an admission that where he
17 said they do not supply McDonald's, he is admitting that
18 they supply a supplier of McDonald's.
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20 MR. MORRIS: Yes, I understand that. So, for example, if you
21 remember Braslo -- sorry, forget Braslo.
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23 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Opticarnes?
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25 MR. MORRIS (To the witness): Braslo in Brazil, you said, did
26 not export to McDonald's?
27 A. I said Braslo -- or, at least, a part of Braslo that is
28 dedicated to McDonald's -- as far as I remember, they do
29 not export finished products, McDonald's products, to any
30 other country, with the possible exception other than a
31 product, an evaluation of their product for comparison
32 reasons. They might export a box just to look at their
33 products, and they might have exported to Argentina for a
34 small period of time, when I remember we had a shortage.
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36 Q. When was that?
37 A. I think it was roughly a year and a half or two years
38 ago.
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40 Q. They do deboning and processing there; is that correct?
41 A. That is correct.
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43 Q. So they may be exporting non-finished products such as
44 frozen, deboned meat?
45 A. That is correct.
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47 Q. We have seen, have we not, I know not that plant, but
48 McDonald's in the UK have bought Brazilian meat in the
49 past?
50 A. Where do you get that information?
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52 Q. From McDonald's UK.
53 A. That McDonald's have bought finished products?
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55 Q. McKey's have bought Brazilian beef to supply McDonald's UK?
56 A. "Brazilian beef" is a wide term.
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58 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You had better summarise what the effect of
59 it is, that there was a period of time, I think, probably
60 over a few months ---
