Day 246 - 09 May 96 - Page 42
1 requires water but I doubt whether it provides any
2 vitamins. It may provide salts that your body requires.
3 We have eggs on our menu at breakfast time. That provides
4 certain minerals, vitamins. We have french fry potatoes
5 which provide others. There is differences between them
6 and yes, we have done in the past work to try and lower the
7 fat content of our products wherever we can keeping in mind
8 there is a certain taste customers demand, also keeping in
9 mind what technology allows us to do.
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11 Q. Right. So, when you talk in these paragraphs about "your
12 commitment to healthy balanced diets and reducing levels of
13 fat in your own products or introducing new products with
14 less fat content", that is your contribution to producing
15 more healthy products? That is your main contribution you
16 are concentrating on there in promoting a healthier menu,
17 if you like, for fat reduction?
18 A. That married with the provision of information to our
19 customers allowing them to make informed choices about what
20 they eat or do not eat on a daily, weekly, monthly,
21 whatever basis.
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23 Q. OK?
24 A. Always encouraging a balanced lifestyle.
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26 Q. I will move on from that.
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28 MR. JUSTICE BELL: If you are moving on to separate topics
29 covered by the leaflet which we divided up into tabs, for
30 instance in the abstract to pleadings, I do want you to
31 think about where you are going with Mr. Preston who was a
32 witness who was called at the beginning of the trial and,
33 among other matters, Mr. Rampton got him to speak to the
34 main features we are concerned with, which I treated as
35 really a preface to the Plaintiff's case, and you and Ms.
36 Steel cross-examined putting various things to him which
37 I was happy to treat as a preface to your case.
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39 Since then, in all the different sections of the case,
40 apart from publication and counterclaim, we have heard
41 virtually all the evidence, factual evidence, from
42 witnesses who have given evidence of fact, expert evidence
43 from people who purported on one side or the other to be
44 experts, and I am very anxious not just to treat Mr.
45 Preston as an additional witness of fact or an additional
46 expert when it may very well be that he can add little or
47 nothing factually, or little or nothing from an expert
48 point of view.
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50 MR. MORRIS: Yes.
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52 MR. JUSTICE BELL: In so far as you want to put something to do
53 with deception about nutrition, which is part of your case
54 on nutrition, that might fall into a different category.
55 You dealt with counterclaim substantially yesterday and you
56 have been back to it this morning, but I am making this
57 little speech because what I do not want you to do is see
58 Mr. Preston as an additional factual or expert evidence on
59 each of these topics, because I do not see him in that
60 light at all.
