Day 279 - 12 Jul 96 - Page 19
1 (Ruling followed -- see separate transcript)
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3 What I suggest you do is, if you are going to read it,
4 you read it now and then we will see what else there is to
5 deal with and take a five minute break if necessary.
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7 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, I have got a few things I would like to
8 mention today after the reading of the statement, if I may?
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10 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Do you have anything else to do today? Have
11 you got other matters you want to read?
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13 MR. MORRIS: Well, I wanted to -- I keep having problems with
14 this US video transcript. I did not want to read out the
15 whole transcript but, if you remember, I did pass up a
16 marked copy.
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18 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes, a highlighted one.
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20 MR. MORRIS: Which the plaintiffs have identical. And I did
21 want to point out why some of it was marked, just in case.
22 Because some of it there is a whole paragraph marked, but
23 there may only be three words that are relevant but we
24 thought it fair to include the whole paragraph.
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26 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, I am going to say something about that
27 anyway. So, perhaps we can leave that for the moment.
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29 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Right, well what I suggest is that you read
30 Dr. Barnard's statement verbatim. The stenographer can
31 then be confident that she need not get it down, because
32 she can be given a photocopy in due course. So just read
33 straight through. Do not read the list of references.
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35 MR. MORRIS: In fact, I shall just miss out all the references
36 to references if you like.
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38 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Take the references as read. When you come
39 to them you need not read them out. Read it straight
40 through steadily and then we will have a five minute
41 break. Yes.
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43 MR. MORRIS: (Reading statement):
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45 "Statement of Dr. Neal D Barnard M.D. July 1, 1996.
46 The following comments address the very real risk related
47 to heart disease posed by food products of the type sold at
48 McDonald's restaurants. In addition I will discuss recent
49 reports on the relationship between fat and breast cancer.
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51 Fat, Cholesterol and Heart Disease.
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53 McDonald's products tend to be high in fat and
54 cholesterol. Diets that is are high in fat and cholesterol
55 increase the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD). This is
56 of grave concern because heart disease is very common in
57 the UK, the US and other western countries. An estimated
58 6,160,000 Americans had coronary heart disease in 1992,
59 defined as angina pectoris (chest pain) and/or a history of
60 heart attack. The epidemic is not limited to older
