Day 037 - 14 Oct 94 - Page 66
1 A. No. I think this is very crude language, Mr. Rampton.
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3 Q. I know. I am trying to summarise the effect of the book
4 without reading the whole thing, Mr. Cox.
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6 MS. STEEL: I think that is a bit of a distortion.
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8 MR. MORRIS: Also Dr. Barnard was not ----
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10 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Forget about Dr. Barnard. Mr. Cox is a
11 perfectly intelligent witness who can answer the question
12 for himself and he has already done so.
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14 MR. RAMPTON: Perhaps what the Defendants do not understand and
15 ought to understand, although I have said it more than
16 once before in this case, if I am going to make a
17 suggestion to your Lordship in closing this case that that
18 is the effect of this book and for that reason Mr. Cox's
19 overall evidence may not be as reliable as the Defendants
20 think it is, then I am duty bound to put it to him so he
21 can deal with it.
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23 MR. JUSTICE BELL: And you are duty bound to put it quite
24 plainly so there can be no doubt as to what your
25 suggestion is.
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27 MS. STEEL: Yes, but there was a reference to Dr. Barnard's
28 book as well.
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30 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You are perfectly right to make that point,
31 but I am interested in what Mr. Cox says about his own
32 view and he has giving his answer to Mr. Rampton's
33 question about it.
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35 MR. RAMPTON: Mr. Cox, would you kind kindly turn back to page
36 36 in the copy pages of the book, your book?
37 A. My book, page 36, yes.
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39 Q. One notices that the book is called the "Real Eating
40 Encyclopaedia of Vegetarian Living - Everything you wanted
41 to know but did not know where to ask". Do you see in the
42 right-hand column on page 36 a heading "Set a Shining
43 Example"?
44 A. Yes.
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46 Q. "Says Paul, a lawyer, 'I've watched my stepsons (my wife's
47 children from a previous marriage) make fairly drastic
48 changes in their eating habits with no overt pressure to
49 do so from us. I think this has happened because of two
50 things Carol (my wife) and I do: First, we set an example
51 by following a low-fat vegetarian eating style ourselves
52 and secondly, at every opportunity, we debunk inaccurate
53 and misleading advertising. For example, if a fast-food
54 restaurant has a spot on TV about their 'healthy' chicken
55 sandwich, Carol and/or I will laugh and say something
56 like, "Yeah, and I bet they've got some Florida swampland
57 for sale, too". Why is that in this book about nutrition?
58 A. It is not a book about nutrition.
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60 Q. Sorry, it is a book about the virtues of vegetarian
