Day 247 - 10 May 96 - Page 50


     
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     2   MR. RAMPTON:  That is right, it is a sideways document.
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     4   MR. MORRIS:  Is it an advertisement with a picture of a potato.
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     6   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Not on mine.
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     8   MR. MORRIS:  We grew it from seed?
     9        A.  I cannot really tell what the picture is.
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    11   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes, quite.  But we have got the same one.
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    13   MR. MORRIS:  We have the same one.  This is a McDonald's
    14        advert.  Is that correct; you remember this one?  It is a
    15        recent one I think?
    16        A.  I think I do.  I see a lot of this stuff.  I do not
    17        remember every one of them.
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    19   Q.   I think it is a 1995 advert in the national press.  Do you
    20        recall it?
    21        A.  That means nothing, but it has our name at the bottom.
    22        I think it is possible we did it, yes.
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    24   Q.   Well, let us assume that you did.  We certainly served it
    25        and it has not been challenged.  I am sure you did do
    26        it. "We grew it from seed, we nurtured it, we watered it
    27        for 150 days, we looked after it, we harvested it and we
    28        still do not know if we can use it."  It goes on about you
    29        only have the best quality, and this kind of stuff.  That
    30        is a recognition, is it not, that you are responsible for
    31        what suppliers, however far down the chain of supplying,
    32        are doing in your name?
    33        A.  We are responsible for the food that we sell over our
    34        counter and operate a system of due diligence, making sure
    35        we know as much as we possibly can about what suppliers are
    36        doing about our products, as far back as we possibly can,
    37        so that I can stand up in places like this and say we did
    38        everything we are supposed to have done, yes.
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    40   Q.   OK.  Thank you very much.  We can put that away now.  There
    41        was one thing in tab 2, before tab 3 that you were in, in
    42        tab 2, that I was going to refer the court to and as we
    43        have this out we might as well do it now.  It is tab 2, and
    44        it is actually the document No 3 in that tab.  It should be
    45        a document called "McDonald's an the environment".
    46        A.  Yes.
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    48   Q.   From Australia.  January 1992.  Have you got that?
    49        A.  I cannot tell from the front but the second page says
    50        Australia, yes. 
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    52   Q.   Just checking everyone has the same document.  In the 
    53        second page under "McDonald's packaging", under
    54        "alternative packaging", it says, second paragraph, "in
    55        1990 after extensive trials we decided to phase out foam
    56        burger packaging completely and by late 1991 all
    57        restaurants Australia-wide were wrapping burgers in a new
    58        paper wrapping.  The paper wraps are generally better for
    59        the environment because they require less resources to
    60        produce, resulting in less waste and are biodegradable.  Is

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