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1 used for soya. According to a study from the University
2 Sao Paulo/Brazil, these areas were used in earlier days to
3 over 80 per cent to produce food supplies like rice, beans,
4 manioc. In those days, you needed six to eight times the
5 manpower: The direct consequence for the people in Brazil,
6 starvation and unemployment.
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8 "In Brazil and other countries of the Third World
9 McDonald's also drives away the business of the small
10 street vendors, who offer meals in the street, because in
11 Brazil and other parts of the Third World McDonald's opens
12 more and more branches, thousands of street vendors lose
13 their business, many die of starvation. Problem field",
14 something unreadable, "McDonald's is anti-trade unionists.
15 I can prove that McDonald's Germany has bullied and
16 dismissed employees who were members of the trade union".
17 That is end of his -----
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19 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It is something, it is "problem field No. 2".
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21 MR. MORRIS: Yes. Despite extensive efforts on our part to get
22 documentary back-up material and establish contact with
23 Mr. Pater, we found it very difficult, so we had to resort
24 to Civil Evidence Act on those limited statements. We have
25 actually disclosed the books that he has written, but we
26 have used them as cross-examination material.
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28 I think the last one is Dr. Nations -- unless anybody else
29 knows any other ones?
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31 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I thought you were going to read Professor
32 Hecht as well?
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34 MR. MORRIS: Yes, sorry, I will do that then. I will do that
35 one next.
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37 MR. JUSTICE BELL: She is L9.
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39 MR. MORRIS: L9.
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41 MS. STEEL: "Statement of professor Susanna Hecht: "I am a
42 professor at the University of California at Los Angeles.
43 I am also the Associate Director for Research of the Centre
44 for Latin American Studies. I have worked in Amazonia
45 since 1975, and have published six books on the region,
46 including one -- Development or Destruction? The Livestock
47 Sector in Latin America, an edited volume of an expert
48 conference on the role of Livestock in the Latin American
49 Tropics, and have published a well known volume of the
50 development of Amazonia Fate of the Forest. One area
51 I specialise in has been the role of livestock in regional
52 development in terms of its sustainability as well as its
53 social and biotic costs.
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55 "Most ranching in the Amazon is not sustainable, and this
56 has been documented in many publications. The fact that
57 this activity exchanges enormous diversity for short term
58 gain is problematic enough, but there are also a spate of
59 other issues.
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