Day 053 - 22 Nov 94 - Page 31


     
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     2   MS. STEEL:  Those components.
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     4   MR. MORRIS:  "Components" -- maybe that is an explanation of the
     5        word "contents".
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     7   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Just pause a moment.  What I have written
     8        down -- tell me if this reflects your argument -- F, as
     9        originally pleaded, referred to the contents of an average
    10        McDonald's meal, that is fat, saturated fat, sodium and
    11        lack of fibre, et cetera, as being linked with cancer and
    12        heart disease, that is, not necessarily McDonald's meals
    13        themselves; whereas the amendment refers to the meals
    14        themselves.
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    16   MS. STEEL:  Yes.
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    18   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  So you say all that F might have been saying,
    19        or was saying originally, was -- forget McDonald's meals --
    20        there is a link between high fat, saturated fat and sodium
    21        and low fibre and minerals and cancers of the breast and
    22        bowel and heart disease?
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    24   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.
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    26   MS. STEEL:  Yes.  The only way that the McDonald's meal is
    27        connected to that is because a McDonald's meal is given as
    28        an example of that nutritional content.
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    30   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes, I understand.
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    32   MS. STEEL:  It specifically has to be taken in the context of
    33        saying that they tried to make out that their food is a
    34        useful and nutritious part, and this is the counter
    35        argument.
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    37   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What about H, in relation to this?
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    39   MS. STEEL:  Sorry.  When I said "their food", I meant
    40        mass-produced hamburgers, chips, colas and milkshakes, and
    41        that type of food, not solely their food.
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    43   MR. MORRIS:  Yes, because the sentence immediately above this
    44        sentence is, "McDonald's try to show that mass-produced
    45        hamburgers, chips, colas, milkshakes", not "their
    46        mass-produced hamburgers, colas, milkshakes".
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    48   MS. STEEL:   I think that is, again, a part of the argument
    49        about they are part of -----
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    51   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What, if anything, does H tell you they are 
    52        alleging?  I know it does not include cancer, but it does 
    53        include clogged arteries and heart attacks.
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    55   MS. STEEL:  H is specifically based on a separate, different
    56        paragraph.
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    58   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I have already sought to make the point that
    59        you cannot just divide the leaflet up into paragraphs; you
    60        have to look at the whole.

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