Day 068 - 16 Dec 94 - Page 50
1 A. There were signed letters -- my impression is more than
2 an opinion -- that I saw, yes.
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4 Q. They are still there today, as far as you know? You have
5 seen them recently?
6 A. Recently, I have seen those. By my definition
7 "recently", by the time I have seen it, it is through the
8 period that I have been with the company. I have no
9 control -- if we follow our normal procedures, those
10 documents would be purged. So I do not know if they exist
11 today.
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13 Q. Is there some reason why -- you have said people have told
14 you that Brazilian beef has never been exported to other
15 countries for McDonald's use -- is there any reason, any
16 policy, why that should not be so? As you say, there are
17 whole areas of Brazil that are not rainforest. So why have
18 people -- has the company any kind of policy on not using
19 Brazilian beef outside of Brazil?
20 A. I have stated at least two times that we do not have a
21 policy against any country, including Brazil.
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23 Q. So what is the reason ---
24 A. We do not have a reason.
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26 Q. -- what is the reason that Brazilian beef -- there is a
27 very large production of beef from Brazil; yes?
28 A. Yes.
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30 MR. MORRIS: Why is not beef from Brazil exported to other
31 countries for McDonald's use?
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33 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, we had all this morning. No, my Lord,
34 I am sorry. I object to the continual repetition of the
35 same question over and over again. We are getting today
36 what we had yesterday, and we are getting this afternoon
37 what we had this morning. My clients are paying for this
38 case. It is objectionable and it is out of order.
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40 MR. MORRIS: I am going to take it further.
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42 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Then take it further, but do not ask the same
43 questions you have asked before. Do your best to avoid
44 that.
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46 MR. MORRIS: I did not ask him what the reason is.
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48 MR. RAMPTON: Yes, he did. We had hoof and mouth and we had
49 limited supplies; we had it all this morning.
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51 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You have gone back over a number of areas
52 more than once. In a complicated case, it happens from
53 time to time, if only one forgets that one has done it.
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55 MR. MORRIS: I was going to briefly touch on it. I was not
56 going back into maps.
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58 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Ask a specific question about it. You are
59 asking a lot of very general questions like: "What is the
60 reason", when you have been told the reason. If you
