Day 241 - 26 Apr 96 - Page 46


     
     1        used for soya.  According to a study from the University
     2        Sao Paulo/Brazil, these areas were used in earlier days to
     3        over 80 per cent to produce food supplies like rice, beans,
     4        manioc.  In those days, you needed six to eight times the
     5        manpower:  The direct consequence for the people in Brazil,
     6        starvation and unemployment.
     7
     8        "In Brazil and other countries of the Third World
     9        McDonald's also drives away the business of the small
    10        street vendors, who offer meals in the street, because in
    11        Brazil and other parts of the Third World McDonald's opens
    12        more and more branches, thousands of street vendors lose
    13        their business, many die of starvation.  Problem field",
    14        something unreadable, "McDonald's is anti-trade unionists.
    15        I can prove that McDonald's Germany has bullied and
    16        dismissed employees who were members of the trade union".
    17        That is end of his -----
    18
    19   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  It is something, it is "problem field No. 2".
    20
    21   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.   Despite extensive efforts on our part to get
    22        documentary back-up material and establish contact with
    23        Mr. Pater, we found it very difficult, so we had to resort
    24        to Civil Evidence Act on those limited statements.  We have
    25        actually disclosed the books that he has written, but we
    26        have used them as cross-examination material.
    27
    28        I think the last one is Dr. Nations -- unless anybody else
    29        knows any other ones?
    30
    31   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I thought you were going to read Professor
    32        Hecht as well?
    33
    34   MR. MORRIS:  Yes, sorry, I will do that then.  I will do that
    35        one next.
    36
    37   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  She is L9.
    38
    39   MR. MORRIS:  L9.
    40
    41   MS. STEEL:   "Statement of professor Susanna Hecht:  "I am a
    42        professor at the University of California at Los Angeles.
    43        I am also the Associate Director for Research of the Centre
    44        for Latin American Studies.  I have worked in Amazonia
    45        since 1975, and have published six books on the region,
    46        including one -- Development or Destruction?  The Livestock
    47        Sector in Latin America, an edited volume of an expert
    48        conference on the role of Livestock in the Latin American
    49        Tropics, and have published a well known volume of the
    50        development of Amazonia Fate of the Forest.   One area 
    51        I specialise in has been the role of livestock in regional 
    52        development in terms of its sustainability as well as its 
    53        social and biotic costs.
    54
    55        "Most ranching in the Amazon is not sustainable, and this
    56        has been documented in many publications.  The fact that
    57        this activity exchanges enormous diversity for short term
    58        gain is problematic enough, but there are also a spate of
    59        other issues.
    60

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