Day 101 - 10 Mar 95 - Page 63


     
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     2   Q.   You do not know -- you have not enquired?
     3        A.  I honestly could not say "yes" or "no" to that.
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     5   Q.   Is it something that McDonald's wants its suppliers to
     6        adhere to, not using antibiotics routinely?
     7        A.  I mean, antibiotics are used in the chickens at Sun
     8        Valley to control diseases and you have had a lot of
     9        positive benefits on the welfare of the animals because of
    10        those.  I am not totally sure the extent to which they are
    11        used in the laying hens.
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    13   Q.   But you do not have any concern about that?
    14        A.  Well, the antibiotics, I believe, that are used for
    15        chickens are so far and away removed from any antibiotics
    16        that could ever be used for humans that there is not really
    17        an issue.
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    19   Q.   Where did you get that information from?
    20        A.  Well, that is my understanding.
    21
    22   Q.   Is that what someone has told you?
    23        A.  It is -- I guess someone would have had to tell me that
    24        or I read it somewhere.  That is how you get information.
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    26   Q.   It is not something you have looked into in any great
    27        depth?
    28        A.  I have not made a lifetime study of it, no.
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    30   Q.   No, not a lifetime study.  Beyond reading, perhaps, one
    31        article that said it or -----
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    33   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Is it something you have really thought about
    34        at all until it was just raised a couple of minutes ago?
    35        A.  Sorry, was that a question to me?
    36
    37   Q.   Is the question of antibiotics being routinely given to
    38        laying hens whose eggs come into McDonald's something which
    39        you have had to apply your mind to at work or something
    40        which you are now thinking about and have some recollection
    41        in relation to because you have been asked questions about
    42        it?
    43        A.  No, it is certainly an issue that I would have
    44        discussed with Oasters in the past.  I know the situation
    45        at Sun Valley.  The discussion would have happened a while
    46        ago, and I cannot remember everything I am told, but
    47        certainly it would have been an issue that I have
    48        discussed, yes.
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    50   MS. STEEL:  That was not actually quite what I was asking. 
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    52   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  No, it was what I asked because I wondered 
    53        whether it had been a feature of his work or not.
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    55   MS. STEEL:  But have you actually beyond reading one article or
    56        being told by one person that the antibiotics used by
    57        chickens are far removed from the antibiotics that are used
    58        by humans, that there will not be any effect and there is
    59        no issue -----
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