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     1        complaint about it when it was produced.  That was referred
     2        to on day 33, page 43.
     3
     4   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   I remember the evidence.  Did he say
     5        anything about what happened to the complaint?
     6
     7   MS. STEEL:   I don't think he did.  I don't think it had been --
     8        it was 1994 when he gave evidence was it not?
     9
    10   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   Yes.
    11
    12   MS. STEEL:   I don't remember whether or not there had been a
    13        result by then.  Dr. Barnard was of the opinion that if
    14        McDonald's are going to provide any information to children
    15        then they should be providing the genuine effects of the
    16        food, including the connections to heart disease and
    17        cancer.  That was on day 33, page 46.
    18
    19        Coming on, this is really a bit of a section as an example
    20        of how it is just ridiculous for McDonald's to suggest that
    21        the leaflet was lies, and that we knew it was lies.  In
    22        relation to the counterclaim, this is obviously... (Pause)
    23
    24        Professor Wheelock accepted that Doll and Peto were top of
    25        the profession and that their views were well respected and
    26        if they made an association between diet and cancer, et
    27        cetera.  Day 16, pages 20 to 21.  Dr. Barnard agreed that
    28        Doll was very important and respected.  That was day 35,
    29        page 34.  In cross-examination, Professor Wheelock quoted
    30        the statistics of Doll and Peto when he was asked whether
    31        what you eat is related causally to cancer.  Day 21, page
    32        46.  Professor Wheelock agreed that bodies such as NACNE
    33        and the Health Education Authority were well respected,
    34        responsible bodies who would not be making wild statements
    35        which were out of sync with the general belief and thought
    36        of the time.  That was day 21, page 24, and obviously, they
    37        were all making statements about the links between high
    38        fat, low fibre diet and heart disease and cancer.  That was
    39        day 21, page 24.
    40
    41        I had already said that, sorry.
    42
    43   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   24.
    44
    45   MS. STEEL:   Yes.  In cross-examination, Dr. Arnott agreed that
    46        if a body such as the National Academy of Sciences in
    47        America produces a report linking diet to cancer that is
    48        bound to suggest to scientists that the content of the
    49        report are correct.  That would have obvious implications
    50        for the food industry.  That was day 22, page 26.  And it
    51        would obviously have implications for ordinary members of
    52        the public such as ourselves believing that there was a
    53        link between diet as set out in the London Greenpeace fact
    54        sheet and degenerative diseases as referred to in the
    55        London Greenpeace fact sheet.
    56
    57        There was the World Health Organisation report which we
    58        have been into, obviously, connecting dietary factors to
    59        the development of a number of chronic diseases, Dr. Arnott
    60        agreed that the World Health Organisation is probably the

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