Day 123 - 09 May 95 - Page 45


     
     1        paper and make the inference that ---
     2
     3   Q.   It is related to -----
     4        A. --  that is related, you know, I do not support that.
     5        It is wrong.
     6
     7   Q.   But what I am saying is, in terms of the, say, just
     8        focusing on the cancer as an example -- in what I read to
     9        you before -----
    10
    11   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I think you are really arguing the case with
    12        Mr. Beavers.  All these are really matters for me.
    13
    14   THE WITNESS:  My Lord I would make this point.
    15
    16   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.
    17        A.  I have been employed by McDonald's for 31 and a half
    18        years and I have been a consumer of McDonald's for much
    19        longer than that.  I have raised four kids.  They all are
    20        consumers of the McDonald's products.  I have a grandson
    21        now, and I have had the opportunity to take him to
    22        McDonald's, and I know that our food is nutritious and
    23        wholesome.  Like anything else, anything consumed in
    24        moderation you know, is fine.
    25
    26   MR. MORRIS:  But you said you welcomed the people getting
    27        dietary guidelines or advice, and what the London
    28        Greenpeace fact sheet says, it talks about -----
    29
    30   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  No, you are arguing the case ---
    31
    32   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.
    33
    34   MR. JUSTICE BELL: --  with the witness, I am afraid.
    35
    36   MR. MORRIS:  I am trying to see why -----
    37
    38   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  He has.
    39
    40   MR. MORRIS:  He should have sued London Greenpeace or sued us.
    41
    42   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  In giving you credit for the purposes of my
    43        comment of genuinely holding a certain point of view, it
    44        appears to me that Mr. Beavers holds an almost
    45        diametrically opposite one; it is not diametrically
    46        opposite.  You are not going to persuade him that you are
    47        right and he is wrong.  It does just end up as an argument
    48        about whether it is right or wrong.  That is the argument
    49        you are going to be putting to me.  This is in very general
    50        terms, but essentially that is the argument you are going 
    51        to put to me on one topic or another, including the 
    52        "nutrition", as we have called for the purposes of the 
    53        trial.  It is not, I think, advancing the matter at all, in
    54        in, effect arguing the rights and wrongs with Mr. Beavers.
    55        You put your point of view and Mr. Beavers comes back --
    56        and you have done it on about a dozen occasion now -- and
    57        puts his point of view.  We are just not getting anywhere.
    58
    59   MR. MORRIS:  So just to sum up then, Mr. Beavers, the paragraph
    60        that I read out to you.

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