Day 080 - 30 Jan 95 - Page 27


     
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     2   Q.   Is that what you want to ask about?
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     4   MR. MORRIS:  If fat is yellow, you said you do not take the
     5        species of cow that automatically have yellow fat, such as
     6        the Jersey?
     7        A.  No, we do not take, not as a species, there is nothing
     8        wrong with them as a species, but if you remember I was
     9        talking about culled cows and young cows and old cows.
    10        Well, a Guernsey/Jersey dairy herd is usually so pampered,
    11        so looked after, that the cows are never killed until they
    12        are right at the end of their lactation so they would be
    13        outside our specification in any case.
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    15   Q.   So the feed that may turn a cow's fat yellow and show up in
    16        the bin, for example, as yellow, do you know what the feed
    17        would be to have caused that?
    18        A.  No, I do not.  I mean -- no, I do not.  Barley does not
    19        turn fat yellow.  I do, based on experience -- you have
    20        just triggered something in my mind but it has nothing to
    21        do with McDonald's -- out in Zimbabwe by law they have to
    22        feed them maize, and when you go into an abattoir in
    23        Zimbabwe all the fat is yellow because they eat maize.
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    25   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Let us stick to meat coming in -----
    26        A.  Well, yes, that is my point, sir.  He asked me a
    27        question.
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    29   Q.   Do you know what it might be -- do not take the breeds of
    30        cattle which have yellowish fat?
    31        A.  Well, based on my observations out there, sir, if
    32        anybody fed cattle on a very high ration of maize, the fat
    33        would go yellow but I had not thought about that for years.
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    35   MR. MORRIS:  But when you see yellow in a bin arriving, or one
    36        of your inspectors, or whatever, sees yellow in the bin, do
    37        they assume it is from some feed from the cattle or some
    38        other reason?
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    40   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I think you are just being asked what would
    41        your reaction be if you saw meat with yellowish fat in one
    42        of the combo bins?
    43        A.  If I am being asked that, sir, and the quality of the
    44        meat was right and it did not show evidence of being a very
    45        old cow, I would accept it.  It would not affect the meat.
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    47   MR. MORRIS:  When you say in your statement:  "50 to 56 per cent
    48        of the meat used in McDonald's hamburgers comes from steers
    49        and heifers which are the top quality butcher shop
    50        meat"  ---- 
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    52   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  If you can give the paragraph when you say 
    53        this ---
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    55   MR. MORRIS:  Paragraph 37.
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    57   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  -- so that I can look at it.
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    59   MR. MORRIS:  Paragraph 37.  I am not quite sure what the meaning
    60        of that is.  Are you saying that the steers and the heifers

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