Day 088 - 13 Feb 95 - Page 34
1 they?
2 A. No, no. It will be done one at a time and shackled and
3 go away, but the norm is one or two.
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5 MR. RAMPTON: Why would it be one instead of more than one which
6 I think you told us you prefer to have more than one at a
7 time because it is for the comfort factor?
8 A. Because when you are droving the pigs into the pen,
9 there is no point in trying to force two or three in; if
10 one would go in, if two or three will gently walk in, that
11 is the method.
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13 Q. So you are not going to force two more in ---
14 A. Not for the sake of it, no.
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16 Q. -- If they do not want to go? I want to ask you about the
17 stunning current that you use at G.D. Bowes & Sons. As you
18 will have noticed, Dr. Gregory made a calculation based on
19 the assumption that the impedance or resistance in a pig's
20 head was 300 ohms, and he knew that your voltage was 134.
21 He divided 300 into 134 and got a figure, according to ohms
22 law, of about .45 of an amp, is that or is it not accurate?
23 A. The calculation is.
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25 Q. No, no, I am not talking about arithmetic; I am talking
26 about the fact?
27 A. The fact is that we have done, as a company, quite a
28 lot of work in this area and, as previously stated, water
29 on the pig, on the pig's head, is ultra-important, we
30 believe, for the conductivity of electricity. We have
31 worked with the Meat and Livestock Commission and various
32 companies in trying to measure and assess what is
33 effective. The work that we have done with the Meat and
34 Livestock Commission shows that approximately the current
35 going through the pig is approximately 1.1 to 1.4 through
36 the ramp.
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38 Q. My Lord, I have just been given, which as one can see from
39 the fax date on it came down from Bowes of Norfolk to
40 Barlow Lyde Gilbert at 10.42 this morning, some sheets of
41 paper. I will not say anything about them. I will give
42 some to the Defendants and to your Lordship. I will get
43 Mr. Bowes just to have a look at them.
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45 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes, very well.
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47 MR. RAMPTON: I can come back to them. I just want him to say
48 what they are. Then I will come back to them very briefly
49 (because I ought almost to finish by the adjournment) at
50 five past two or something like.
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52 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes. Anyway, you want Mr. Bowes to identify
53 them before you go away and people have an opportunity to
54 look at them?
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56 MR. RAMPTON: Yes, so that the Defendants know what it is that
57 he is going to refer to. I make no apology for this, my
58 Lord, because they are not McDonald's documents. I did not
59 know of their existence until this morning.
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