Day 297 - 08 Nov 96 - Page 42


     
     1        most influential health organisation in the world.  That
     2        was day 23, page 19.  If we needed anybody to confirm that,
     3        anyway.  But it is, yes, it is significant coming from
     4        McDonald's key witness on cancer.
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     6        Professor Keene in cross-examination referred to the World
     7        Health Organisation as a highly respected organisation
     8        whose reports are state of the art and state the science
     9        opinion, and regarded with considerable respect.  That was
    10        day 21, page 32.  Geoffrey Cannon, is a consultant for the
    11        World Health Organisation European region and has given
    12        presentations at the World Health Organisation conferences,
    13        and his area of expertise was public health policy.
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    15   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   What you say about him, put no doubt over
    16        simply, whatever he can believe, we can too, is it not?
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    18   MS. STEEL:   Well, yes.  But he considered that the statement in
    19        the London Greenpeace fact sheet was actually quite
    20        carefully phrased and was, you know, generally acceptable.
    21        But I think the whole point is that if a body such as the
    22        World Health Organisation, and all the other countless
    23        bodies as well, the UK Health Education Authority, United
    24        States National Academy of Sciences, if they can say that
    25        they consider that there is a causal link, or any link
    26        bearing in mind that...
    27
    28        Well, a causal link, the whole point being if organisations
    29        such as that can say there was a causal link between diet
    30        and cancer, and heart disease, between the high fat low
    31        fibre diet and cancer and heart disease, and make
    32        recommendations to the public based on that point of view
    33        with the intention of preventing deaths from those
    34        degenerative diseases and reducing the incidence of those
    35        diseases, why on earth should McDonald's be able to stop
    36        anyone from making the criticisms which are made in the
    37        London Greenpeace fact sheet, which are exactly the same?
    38        If anything, they are less strong than what is stated in
    39        the World Health Organisation report.
    40
    41        I have kind of reached a bit of a break.
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    43   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Right.  What are you going to go on to
    44        next?   Is it that you want to get the references from the
    45        other witnesses?
    46
    47   MS. STEEL:   Yes.  There is Campbell and Brophy and Crawford,
    48        and I think some of the ones that I quoted to you on the
    49        first day where I did not actually give you the...  I will
    50        try and type those up, the ones from the first day.
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    52   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   We will adjourn until 10.30 on Monday.
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    54                        (The Court Adjourned)
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