Day 245 - 07 May 96 - Page 66
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2 Q. Can we get my statement out. I think it is important.
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4 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
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6 MR. MORRIS: It is in the Defendants' statement. I am not sure
7 what number that is in. It is in the publication section,
8 I believe.
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10 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It is pale blue 1C. The bundles are divided
11 up and at the very beginning there is a divider F. Divider
12 1 was Ms. Steel's statement and divider 2 is Mr. Morris's.
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14 MR. MORRIS: Have you read this?
15 A. I believe I have. I have not done it recently.
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17 Q. Right. If you look at the fourth page, it has a
18 handwritten continuation statement on 28th July 1993; is
19 that correct?
20 A. There is a handwritten statement. The date is 28th
21 July, 1993. Is that what you are saying?
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23 Q. That is correct. It is a continuation of the statement of
24 Dave Morris in my handwriting and signed at the bottom.
25 You will accept, for example, that it says that I (the
26 second paragraph), had spoken to officials of the
27 International Union of Food Workers about McDonald's
28 employment policies, poor pay and conditions, that I had
29 spoken to the makers of the Jungle Burger where suppliers
30 of McDonald's had been interviewed saying that they
31 exported to McDonald's in the US, and I had spoken (the
32 next paragraph) to experts on the inadequacies of the US
33 beef labelling system. The next paragraph says I spoke to
34 many parents who objected to the advertising and promotion
35 and pressures on their kids to go to McDonald's, etcetera
36 and it goes through the issues: environment/index.html">litter, animal suffering,
37 over the page. My belief is that companies are motivated
38 predominantly by profits and power and all that kind of
39 stuff. That was in 1993.
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41 You knew, or should have known, or were reckless not to
42 have known, that I fervently believed that the material in
43 the London Greenpeace fact sheet was true?
44 A. I am sorry?
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46 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Take it in steps. Ask whether he accepts the
47 contents of your statement first of all.
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49 MR. MORRIS: Do you accept that I believe those things that
50 I have written in my statement, that I did contact those
51 people and?
52 A. You may very well have. I have no way of knowing. You
53 say you did. We will give the benefit of the doubt. You
54 contacted them.
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56 Q. Right. That we prepared a substantial case with 65 or 70
57 witnesses to defend?
58 A. You are here in defence, certainly.
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60 Q. Yes, so to attack my state of mind being that I have
