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     1        of blood, we would have to go back to Harley.  We will
     2        resume at 2 o'clock.
     3
     4   MR. MORRIS:  Can I just ask, can we ask for an indication from
     5        Mr. Hill when his letter of affidavit is going to come
     6        about Costa Rica.
     7
     8   MR. RAMPTON:  I think they have had it.
     9
    10   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Sort that out between now and 2 o'clock.
    11
    12                        (Luncheon Adjournment)
    13
    14   MS. STEEL:  What quantity of chicken meat or what quantity of
    15        chickens that are killed for the meat used by McDonald's in
    16        the USA?
    17        A.  We produce about 200 million pounds to 250 million
    18        pounds.
    19
    20   Q.   How many pounds of meat would you get from a chicken, would
    21        McDonald's get?
    22        A.  We normally grow the chickens to anywhere from 6 to 6.5
    23        pounds.  From that you can take 70 per cent carcass weight,
    24        and then boneless meat is probably 50 per cent.
    25
    26   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  So it is about three pounds to
    27        three-and-a-quarter pounds?
    28        A.  Yes, a little bit less once you trim the things that
    29        were specifications, but that is what it would yield in
    30        terms of meat.
    31
    32   MS. STEEL:   So probably, what, three pounds of meat per bird or
    33        less than that?
    34        A.  A little bit less but a close range.
    35
    36   Q.   Two-and-a-half?
    37        A.  Yes, there are two different, there is males and there
    38        is females.  The males are grown to 6.5 and the females are
    39        grown to a lesser weight.
    40
    41   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Doing your best, two-and-a-half pounds, that
    42        would sound fair enough, would it?
    43        A.  Yes.
    44
    45   Q.   That would work out at 80 to 100 million chickens a year?
    46        A.  Probably so.
    47
    48   MS. STEEL:  I read somewhere that it was estimated that in 1985
    49        three million broilers were sold each week in the United
    50        States for Chicken McNuggets.  Do you think that is likely 
    51        to be true? 
    52        A.  Three million broilers? 
    53
    54   Q.   Each week.
    55        A.  In 1993?
    56
    57   Q.   In 1985.
    58        A.  Oh, I do not know.
    59
    60   Q.   You do not know?

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