Day 309 - 03 Dec 96 - Page 52
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2 MR. RAMPTON: And the animals do not have a choice.
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4 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes. Thank you. That is all I have in mind
5 on volume 2.
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7 MR. RAMPTON: Before your Lordship leaves animals, I have
8 brought with me -- which your Lordship saw, and I suppose
9 is on loan (inaudible) -- Dr. Patteson's book about
10 chickens. I am not bringing that to add weight to his
11 authority. It is because it has got, as your Lordship will
12 remember, a nice colour picture of two broiler houses with
13 curtains from hot countries.
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15 MR. JUSTICE BELL: They were actually referred to in the
16 evidence, were they not, and the book was handed up?
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18 MR. RAMPTON: That is right.
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20 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Unless there is any objection, I had better
21 have it with me. I do not propose to read any part of it,
22 apart from just looking at the photograph.
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24 MR. RAMPTON: I have flagged the coloured pictures.
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26 MS. STEEL: I think there were actually a couple of pages that
27 I referred to when cross-examining Mr. Patteson.
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29 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I will look at those, but what I will not go
30 on is a voyage of discovery through the rest of the book.
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32 MS. STEEL: Right.
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34 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Volume 3. I think I might find it easier if
35 I started with divider 2 and came back to recycling and
36 waste, which is divider 1. But we will take the five
37 minutes.
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39 (Short Adjournment)
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41 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I find it easier, really, for the purposes of
42 trying to clear my mind on certain matters, breaking this
43 area up into economic imperialism, destruction of the
44 rainforest, and then what we have called recycling and
45 waste ---
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47 MR. RAMPTON: Yes.
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49 MR. JUSTICE BELL: -- although, clearly, they are all intertwined
50 to an extent, for a variety of reasons. If the meaning, so
51 far as economic imperialism is concerned, was something
52 like this, that McDonald's is culpably responsible for, to
53 blame for, starvation in the Third World -- firstly,
54 because it has bought vast tracts of land in poor countries
55 for cattle ranching, evicting the small farmers who live
56 there growing food for their own people; secondly, because
57 the power of its money has forced poor countries to export
58 beef to it in the United States; and, thirdly, because it
59 has drawn some Third World countries to export staple crops
60 as cattle feed or, in South American countries, to feed
