Day 097 - 06 Mar 95 - Page 50
1 Q. Is it covered?
2 A. Yes.
3
4 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes, he said a covered holding yard, straw
5 bedded, feed and water.
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7 MR. RAMPTON: What about ones that arrive and do not have to be
8 kept overnight because they are needed immediately, what
9 happens then?
10 A. They go into a lairage to await slaughter.
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12 Q. Are you familiar with the Ministry of Agriculture's
13 guidelines on the treatment of red meat animals at
14 slaughter?
15 A. I am familiar with it, yes.
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17 Q. Could I ask you to fetch from behind you in the shelves a
18 yellow backed file with Roman IX on it entitled "Rearing
19 and Slaughter"? Please turn to tab 8 in that file where
20 you should find a written statement which you made for the
21 purpose of these proceedings. Do you have that?
22 A. Yes.
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24 Q. If you turn behind it you will find, I think, two
25 appendices, one is appendix TNC1 -- we will look at that in
26 a moment -- or it may be in the same appendix. I am
27 sorry. Behind that document which is four pages long,
28 sorry, yes, your page No. 129 at the bottom should be
29 "Welfare of Red Meat Animals at Slaughter", is it?
30 A. Yes.
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32 Q. Is that a document that you yourself are familiar with?
33 A. I have seen it, yes.
34
35 Q. Now turn back, please, to the beginning of that appendix.
36 This is perhaps a leaflet or something, I do not know, but
37 this is not its original form. You need perhaps easily to
38 read it to take it out, to turn it sideways. Page 125 it
39 should have at the bottom. This is entitled: "The Welfare
40 of Red Meat Animals at Slaughter", "Stunning and Sticking"
41 is the first part. If we turn over two pages we come to
42 "Pre-slaughter handling", do you see that? Do you have
43 that?
44 A. Yes.
45
46 Q. These documents appear to have been issued by the Ministry
47 of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food; is that right?
48 A. I think that is right, yes.
49
50 Q. It says in the left-hand side of the first page: "These
51 pocket notes are for slaughter staff involved in stunning
52 and sticking of live animals". Do you see that, the
53 left-hand column at the top?
54 A. Mine says "Handling live animals in the lairage", this
55 side. Page 127, was it?
56
57 Q. No, sorry. 125. It is my fault.
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59 MR. JUSTICE BELL: These are short carry-around notes based on
60 the Code of Practice itself, are they?
