Day 241 - 26 Apr 96 - Page 45


     
     1        holders have to be resettled into the Amazone, where
     2        thereafter they destroy the rainforest.
     3
     4        "I have proof of those links and have put them forward in
     5        many discussions with McDonald's managers on radio and TV
     6        and on events of stage discussions.  McDonald's could not
     7        so far credibly disprove these facts.
     8
     9        "I would like to give evidence to those points (anti-trade
    10        unionist, damages of health through McDonald's products and
    11        others) in court.
    12
    13        "My name is Siegfried Pater, born 26.2.1945" ------
    14
    15   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You need not give the rest.
    16
    17   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.
    18
    19   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  He is living in Germany.
    20
    21   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.
    22
    23        "Supplement to the declaration".  This one is actually
    24        dated 28th July.  This is the last one.  "I would like to
    25        specify two problem areas in connection with McDonald's.
    26
    27        As Third World expert (over 20 book publications on the
    28        subject 'The Third World'; former member of the Management
    29        Committee of the German (Third World) Development Agency",
    30        then there is a star with a reference at the bottom, "These
    31        are names of associations - political groups which cannot
    32        be" ---
    33
    34   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  "... easily translated".
    35
    36   MR. MORRIS:  -- "easily translated" -- "directly translated".
    37
    38   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  "... Directly translated", yes, thank you.
    39
    40   MR. MORRIS:  Continuing to read:  "... development agency,
    41        Berlin, Executive Board Member of the Henrich - Boll -
    42        Foundation, Koln, Managing Director of the Bureau of Advice
    43        concerning Latin America, Bonn, Member of the Board of
    44        Directors of the working party 'Learn and help in
    45        Overseas", Bonn, Founder Member of the Federal Congress for
    46        (Third World) Development Political Action Groups, Hamburg
    47        and others), I am able to show the link between the
    48        expansion of the biggest fast-food chain, the worldwide
    49        expanding Corporation McDonald's and the escalation of
    50        hunger in the world. 
    51 
    52        "Whereas in Brazil about half of the population suffers 
    53        from hunger, soya is not being sold or distributed to the
    54        people, but is for export where it will be fed to
    55        McDonald's cattle.  Today in Brazil about 20 per cent of
    56        the", something "land is used for soya".
    57
    58   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I think it is "farmland".
    59
    60   MR. MORRIS:  "Farmland", yes. "20 per cent of the farmland is

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