Day 158 - 19 Jul 95 - Page 15


     
     1        the words "including and/or".  So it should say:  "Regions
     2        including and/or bordering areas of ex-rain forest land".
     3
     4        Then it continues all the way down to the bottom, except
     5        that between 66 and 75 it should read after that: "38 per
     6        cent of the Amazon forest", and then cross off "was".  So
     7        it says:  "38 per cent of the Amazon forest cut down", and
     8        then cross off "to be replaced" -- I am sorry I did not
     9        type this up last night; it would have helped -- and
    10        say "was caused".
    11
    12   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Between 1966 and 1975, 38 per cent of the
    13        Amazon Forest -----
    14
    15   MR. MORRIS:  ".....cut down was caused by cattle ranching".
    16
    17   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  So you take out "to be replaced", do you?
    18
    19   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.  This was a misunderstanding of some
    20        information.  "Of the forest cut down, 38 per cent of it
    21        was caused by cattle ranching"; and then add, at the end of
    22        "cattle ranching", "and a further 30 per cent was by
    23        colonisation".
    24
    25        There are two additional sentences after that and no more
    26        alterations.  The two more additional sentences are:
    27        "Cattle ranching outside the Amazon is the principal
    28        reason for the movement of peasants into the Amazon,
    29        causing deforestation.  These peasants can and have invaded
    30        indigenous Indian land."
    31
    32   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  "These peasants can invade and have invaded".
    33
    34   MR. MORRIS:  Yes, that is better, thank you.  Then the final
    35        short sentence:  "By this process, McDonald's have aided
    36        rain forest destruction and helped to maintain ecological
    37        problems and social inequalities" -- presumably, in Brazil;
    38        you might as well add "in Brazil".
    39
    40        McDonald's have accepted that they get beef reared in
    41        Brazil, delivered to them in Brazil; and we have an example
    42        where it has also been exported to the UK.  That is all
    43        established.
    44
    45        The evidence that has been given by the Plaintiffs, there
    46        are two main things that I had time to track down last
    47        night:  the Vesty letter -- it may be very helpful if
    48        people could have a copy of the Vesty letter in front of
    49        them.
    50 
    51   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I want you to refer me to matters such as 
    52        that. 
    53
    54   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.
    55
    56   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Obviously, time is important, but I do not
    57        want you to rush so that you do not refer me to the matters
    58        you rely on.  I do not keep all these matters in my mind
    59        and I have not made my own list of matters I thought you
    60        might refer to.  So you take me to them.

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