Day 094 - 01 Mar 95 - Page 39


     
     1        springboard for her questions may be that article, but when
     2        you put the questions to the witness just put them
     3        according to the procedure we have followed before.
     4
     5        By all means, refer us to a page so that we can stay with
     6        you, but then say:  "Do you accept that?" and put your
     7        proposition of fact without reading from the document as
     8        such.  Do not you concern yourself with the procedure.  If
     9        you have time just to have a glance through it between now
    10        and 2 o'clock, so be it.
    11
    12                        (Luncheon Adjournment)
    13
    14   MS. STEEL:  Did you read the article over the lunch break?
    15        A.  I did, I glanced through it.
    16
    17   Q.   On page 35 ---
    18        A.  Yes.
    19
    20   Q.   -- it mentions about Montfort's Grand Island
    21        slaughterhouse.  The paragraph just below that, I am
    22        looking under "lining for slaughter"?
    23        A.  Yes.
    24
    25   Q.   The paragraph just below that describes the way that the
    26        operation starts, the one that says "starting before dawn"?
    27        A.  Yes.
    28
    29   Q.   Is that an accurate description of what would happen at the
    30        plant?
    31        A.  How many lines, are just the first paragraph?
    32
    33   Q.   Yes.
    34        A.  Yes, that is where it starts.
    35
    36   Q.   So electric prods would be standard?
    37        A.  I do not know if they are standard.  Are they used --
    38        yes.
    39
    40   Q.   "Following having their throats cut, the hides are stripped
    41        with a rotary blade".  Can you just explain how that works?
    42        A.  There is a mechanical -- there is not only that, there
    43        are several steps that take place before that, where the
    44        animal -- where the part of the skinning removal of the
    45        hide takes place by hand, at the last part is the piece of
    46        equipment is more of a roll than a blade.  I do not know
    47        what may mean by "a blade".  It is a roll.  So, if you can
    48        imagine this band as being the roll, it has a chain and
    49        that chain goes and, basically, it ties a knot at the
    50        different corners of the hide, of both left hand-side, and 
    51        as it rolls it pulls the hide downwards. 
    52 
    53   Q.   Then "following that their heads would be cut off".  Would
    54        you accept that often hair remains on the skinned head and
    55        horns?
    56        A.  Could happen, yes.
    57
    58   Q.   Would you accept that that could lead to contamination?
    59        A.  Yes, it could.
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