Day 309 - 03 Dec 96 - Page 52


     
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     2   MR. RAMPTON:  And the animals do not have a choice.
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     4   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.  Thank you.  That is all I have in mind
     5        on volume 2.
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     7   MR. RAMPTON:  Before your Lordship leaves animals, I have
     8        brought with me -- which your Lordship saw, and I suppose
     9        is on loan (inaudible) -- Dr. Patteson's book about
    10        chickens.  I am not bringing that to add weight to his
    11        authority.  It is because it has got, as your Lordship will
    12        remember, a nice colour picture of two broiler houses with
    13        curtains from hot countries.
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    15   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  They were actually referred to in the
    16        evidence, were they not, and the book was handed up?
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    18   MR. RAMPTON:  That is right.
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    20   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Unless there is any objection, I had better
    21        have it with me.  I do not propose to read any part of it,
    22        apart from just looking at the photograph.
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    24   MR. RAMPTON:  I have flagged the coloured pictures.
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    26   MS. STEEL:  I think there were actually a couple of pages that
    27        I referred to when cross-examining Mr. Patteson.
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    29   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I will look at those, but what I will not go
    30        on is a voyage of discovery through the rest of the book.
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    32   MS. STEEL:   Right.
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    34   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Volume 3.  I think I might find it easier if
    35        I started with divider 2 and came back to recycling and
    36        waste, which is divider 1.  But we will take the five
    37        minutes.
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    39                        (Short Adjournment)
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    41   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I find it easier, really, for the purposes of
    42        trying to clear my mind on certain matters, breaking this
    43        area up into economic imperialism, destruction of the
    44        rainforest, and then what we have called recycling and
    45        waste ---
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    47   MR. RAMPTON:  Yes.
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    49   MR. JUSTICE BELL: -- although, clearly, they are all intertwined
    50        to an extent, for a variety of reasons.  If the meaning, so 
    51        far as economic imperialism is concerned, was something 
    52        like this, that McDonald's is culpably responsible for, to 
    53        blame for, starvation in the Third World -- firstly,
    54        because it has bought vast tracts of land in poor countries
    55        for cattle ranching, evicting the small farmers who live
    56        there growing food for their own people; secondly, because
    57        the power of its money has forced poor countries to export
    58        beef to it in the United States; and, thirdly, because it
    59        has drawn some Third World countries to export staple crops
    60        as cattle feed or, in South American countries, to feed

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