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1 and heifers for fattening in areas closer to the main
2 abattoirs nearer the urban centres and markets (including
3 in Sao Paulo State) this is a well-known standard practice
4 and I have researched the"cow-calf" operations myself in
5 some detail, establishing that substantial amounts of beef
6 reared on recently cleared ex-rain forest land thereby
7 enters the general market through the fattening farm of
8 central Brazil.
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10 13. I have been informed that Lord Vestey has testified
11 that in the mid-1980's his company's meat plant at
12 Barretos, Sao Paulo, slaughtered over 150,000 head of
13 cattle each year which he states would have been raised
14 outside the region (from unknown sources) and brought into
15 the region to be fattened. Assuming Barretos purchased
16 cattle on the market in the normal way, in my opinion it is
17 a certainty that a substantial proportion of such cattle
18 would have been those which had been raised in former rain
19 forest areas and transported to Sao Paulo and other nearby
20 farms to be fattened for slaughter. Sincerely, Susanna B.
21 Hecht, Professor", and we disclosed the signed page.
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23 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes, I saw that.
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25 MR. MORRIS: That has been accepted, and the curriculum vitae is
26 attached.
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28 MR. MORRIS: The only other thing that we wanted to bring up
29 was, well, in fact, we do not even really want to bring it
30 up in the light of general indications that people do not
31 want it read, would be the US video transcripts but as I
32 have marked all the relevant, what I think are the relevant
33 passages, then I am content for one to be able to identify
34 what we are getting at and obviously we can refer to that
35 in closing speeches anyway.
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37 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
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39 MR. MORRIS: Can I say something about the documents in Court?
40 Will we have a chance to take out our documents up until
41 July 31st?
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43 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What I should think you should do is arrange
44 a time you want to do that because very often, when I am
45 not sitting in this Court, it is used for another purpose.
46 I want to say sooner rather than later and I want to ask
47 you what else we have got to deal with. That is it, until
48 early October unless some, either party has some urgent
49 matter which crops up which is causing some difficulty and
50 which they might want me to deal with in September, in
51 which case I will happily come back. But you must make
52 arrangements, helped I hope by Mr. Riley and certainly by
53 Mr. Glenn, my Clerk, to fix a time when you are going to
54 come to take your bundles out.
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56 MR. MORRIS: Yes. I mean, obviously we have got the matter of
57 trying to get as much agreement as possible with the
58 Plaintiffs over admissibility of certain documents which we
59 want to work on once we have finished today, or whenever it
60 is that we have finished, and identifying documents we want
