Day 037 - 14 Oct 94 - Page 68


     
     1        Humans are Natural Vegetarians", under a series of blobs
     2        ----
     3        A.  Sorry?
     4
     5   Q.   Page 4 of your book?
     6        A.  This is not the left-hand column.
     7
     8   Q.   Left-hand column on page 4?
     9        A.  Could you read out the beginning of the passage?
    10
    11   Q.   There is a series of five black blobs and underneath that
    12        there is a passage that begins "Many of us have heard of"?
    13        A.  Yes.
    14
    15   Q.   "Many of us have heard of 'hamburgerization', the process
    16        of turning a tropical forest into hamburgers, using cows
    17        as an intermediary.  Alan Durning explains: 'Costa Rica,
    18        for example, was once almost completely cloaked in
    19        tropical forest, holding within its small confines perhaps
    20        five per cent of all plant and animal species on earth.
    21        By 1983, after two decades of explosive growth in the
    22        cattle industry, just 17 per cent of the original forest
    23        remained. Throughout the period, Costa Rica was exporting
    24        between one-third and two-thirds of its beef, mostly to
    25        the US, and it continues to export smaller quantities
    26        today.  Producing a single Costa Rican hamburger involves
    27        the destruction of 55 square feet of rainforest - an area
    28        about the size of a small kitchen".  Unless you wish me to
    29        do so, I will not read the rest of that paragraph because
    30        it is amplification of the point made earlier.  The
    31        question I ask you is this, Mr. Cox:  When you wrote that
    32        passage and you referred to hamburgerization, did you have
    33        any particular companies in mind?
    34        A.  Well, I mean, I did not write that.  It is obviously
    35        not my writing.  It is a quotation.
    36
    37   Q.   You put it in the book?
    38        A.  From Alan Durning.
    39
    40   Q.   You put it in the book?
    41        A.  Yes, I did put it in the book.
    42
    43   Q.   When you put it in the book, if you must chop logic, did
    44        you have any companies in mind?
    45        A.  I am very sorry, Mr. Rampton, I did not hear the whole
    46        of that question?
    47
    48   Q.   When you decided to put this passage in the book, did you
    49        have any particular hamburger companies in mind?
    50        A.  I am afraid I did not, no.  Should I have done? 
    51 
    52   Q.   I ask whether you did.  If the answer is, no, you did not, 
    53        that is the end of it.
    54        A.  I fail to see the point of your question, but the
    55        answer is, no, I did not.
    56
    57   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Try not to ask Mr. Rampton questions.  It
    58        may be ----
    59        A.  Sorry.
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