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1 peeling his own potatoes in the store instead of using a
2 frozen product was on the same order as insisting on
3 slaughtering his own steers and grinding the hamburger.
4 Not quite as messy, of course, but potato peelings gave us
5 plenty of problems nevertheless."
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7 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Why are you reading this?
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9 MR. MORRIS: Just because -- I do not know. It is not of
10 relevance.
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12 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I have the point that Mr. Cox says this is
13 how their use of processed food began or processed
14 potatoes, that the spray is a more recent development of
15 that theme.
16 A. Quite.
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18 Q. He says that if you have a processed food, that can fairly
19 be described as synthetic. Is that right, Mr. Cox?
20 A. That is right.
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22 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Let us pause there and start again at 2
23 o'clock.
24 (Short Adjournment)
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26 MR. MORRIS: There is one point I missed out from your
27 statement where you quote McDonald's, saying that "a
28 relatively high percentage of the energy in our food comes
29 from fat". That was on page 5 of your statement. If we
30 go to document 49 of the Defendants' list of documents, it
31 is bundle II, tab 49?
32 A. Which document?
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34 Q. 49.
35 A. It is a photocopied letter.
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37 Q. Yes. This document is from McDonald's, saying: "Dear
38 reader", which presumably means it is some kind of routine
39 mail-out and it is stamped with the Bexley Community
40 Health Council, I believe that is, CHC 29th March 1985.
41 The date is post marked on the letter which emphasises
42 that it is probably a routine mail-out. If I just take us
43 through this letter because actually it could be important
44 in the case.
45 A. Yes.
46
47 Q. I will not read out all the bits of it except to say that
48 on the fourth paragraph it talks about "the enclosed
49 brochure". It is our impression, that is, immediately
50 after the paragraph before talking about the nutrition
51 consultants they hired to prepare much of the information
52 in the document which is actually in tab 48, "Nutritional
53 Analysis of Foods Served at McDonald's Restaurants"?
54 A. Yes.
55
56 Q. You do not know that because this was given to us, so we
57 assume that No. 48 came -----
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59 MS. STEEL: If it is any assistance, when I got the two
60 documents, I got them together and they do have similar
