Day 095 - 02 Mar 95 - Page 28
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2 Q. Could you say what sort of age they were?
3 A. From the very first ones that we saw they are one day
4 old.
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6 Q. No, but the ones he is doing there are considerably more
7 than one day old?
8 A. Can we go back? That specific one -- seven, 10 days.
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10 (The video recording continued)
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12 MS. STEEL: Can you just pause a second? I should have stopped
13 earlier. The conditions that were shown in the broiler
14 sheds, would they be pretty typical -- not the turkeys
15 obviously, the chickens?
16 A. The broiler house and, obviously, you cannot tell
17 because of the quality of the immediate camera, you cannot
18 tell the intensity of the light. That was a laying hen,
19 what is called a pullet house. Those birds who are raised
20 for hens. There are obviously some poor management
21 practices. We can go in detail into each one of those, but
22 it is not typical. It is -- if you look at from a higher
23 perspective in which the animals are in confinement, the
24 environment is controlled, they are fed a diet which is
25 prepared nutritionally balanced -- from that perspective,
26 yes.
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28 MR. JUSTICE BELL: So those were laying hens in the shed ---
29 A. Yes.
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31 Q. -- before the turkey shed, were they?
32 A. The turkeys, I do not know.
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34 Q. Forget the turkeys but before we got to the turkeys ---
35 A. Right.
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37 Q. -- we had a man walking through a shed picking up dead
38 birds?
39 A. That was -----
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41 Q. Are you saying that they were laying hens?
42 A. That is correct.
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44 MS. STEEL: I do not know whether you can fast review on the
45 thing without losing the picture, but there is a bit
46 straight after this about battery chickens?
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48 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What do you want to do? Do you want to
49 pause?
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51 MS. STEEL: Just to fast review it rather than lose the picture.
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53 MR. JUSTICE BELL: This looks the most entertaining, apart from
54 the serious part of it. Say when you want to stop.
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56 MS. STEEL: I wanted to go back, sorry?
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58 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You wanted to get through the cartoon
59 quickly, did you? Was it the cartoon you wanted to get
60 through quickly?
