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1 McKey suppliers, the proportion was 4.5 per cent, and in
the case of the other 20 abattoirs that you saw, the
2 proportion was not twice as much, but significantly more
8.9 per cent. Can we take it that those figures speak for
3 themselves?
A. Yes.
4
Q. Thank you.
5
MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, those are the questions I have to ask of
6 Dr. Gregory at this stage.
7 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Would you like to have the five-minute break
now?
8
MS. STEEL: Yes, could we have a 10 minute break?
9
MR. JUSTICE BELL: Shall we break off until a quarter past 3?
10
MS. STEEL: Yes, please.
11
(Short Adjournment)
12
Cross-Examined by the Defendants
13
MS. STEEL: Do you or does the Bristol University, your unit,
14 have any financial links with Sun Valley Poultry?
A. I have done consultancy work for them or to do welfare
15 audits, to do welfare audits, so I go into their
processing plant and I give them an honest report, what I
16 consider to be an honest report, on the good things and
the bad things of their welfare performance. We have had
17 one other link in that we have been trying to develop a
gas stunning system for turkeys. That is their turkey
18 line which is in a different location. We are about to
start links for broilers on gas stunning.
19
Q. Right. How long have you had those links?
20 A. I have known Sun Valley for a long time because we
have used their processing plants in our survey work, like
21 what was described for plant F.
22 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Can you keep your voice up, please?
A. Yes. But we have not had any links where they have
23 been giving us money until very recently.
24 MS. STEEL: What do you mean by "very recently", within the
last couple of years or more?
25 A. The only occasion, yes, this last two years, for
instance, with the work on gas stunning on turkeys.
26
Q. Right. When was the first time you did a survey at Sun
27 Valley of any kind?
A. I am not certain of the exact year. It would have
28 been in the mid-80s.
29 Q. What was that one into?
A. Looking at which blood vessels were severed by various
30 neck cutting machines used in industry.
