Day 280 - 17 Jul 96 - Page 39


     
     1        and heifers for fattening in areas closer to the main
     2        abattoirs nearer the urban centres and markets (including
     3        in Sao Paulo State)  this is a well-known standard practice
     4        and I have researched the"cow-calf" operations myself in
     5        some detail, establishing that substantial amounts of beef
     6        reared on recently cleared ex-rain forest land thereby
     7        enters the general market through the fattening farm of
     8        central Brazil.
     9
    10        13.  I have been informed that Lord Vestey has testified
    11        that in the mid-1980's his company's meat plant at
    12        Barretos, Sao Paulo, slaughtered over 150,000 head of
    13        cattle each year which he states would have been raised
    14        outside the region (from unknown sources) and brought into
    15        the region to be fattened.  Assuming Barretos purchased
    16        cattle on the market in the normal way, in my opinion it is
    17        a certainty that a substantial proportion of such cattle
    18        would have been those which had been raised in former rain
    19        forest areas and transported to Sao Paulo and other nearby
    20        farms to be fattened for slaughter. Sincerely, Susanna B.
    21        Hecht, Professor", and we disclosed the signed page.
    22
    23   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   Yes, I saw that.
    24
    25   MR. MORRIS:  That has been accepted, and the curriculum vitae is
    26        attached.
    27
    28   MR. MORRIS:  The only other thing that we wanted to bring up
    29        was, well, in fact, we do not even really want to bring it
    30        up in the light of general indications that people do not
    31        want it read, would be the US video transcripts but as I
    32        have marked all the relevant, what I think are the relevant
    33        passages, then I am content for one to be able to identify
    34        what we are getting at and obviously we can refer to that
    35        in closing speeches anyway.
    36
    37   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.
    38
    39   MR. MORRIS:  Can I say something about the documents in Court?
    40        Will we have a chance to take out our documents up until
    41        July 31st?
    42
    43   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What I should think you should do is arrange
    44        a time you want to do that because very often, when I am
    45        not sitting in this Court, it is used for another purpose.
    46        I want to say sooner rather than later and I want to ask
    47        you what else we have got to deal with.   That is it, until
    48        early October unless some, either party has some urgent
    49        matter which crops up which is causing some difficulty and
    50        which they might want me to deal with in September, in
    51        which case I will happily come back.  But you must make
    52        arrangements, helped I hope by Mr. Riley and certainly by
    53        Mr. Glenn, my Clerk, to fix a time when you are going to
    54        come to take your bundles out.
    55
    56   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.  I mean, obviously we have got the matter of
    57        trying to get as much agreement as possible with the
    58        Plaintiffs over admissibility of certain documents which we
    59        want to work on once we have finished today, or whenever it
    60        is that we have finished, and identifying documents we want

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