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     1        moment at least do not have any sheep products, do they?
     2        A.  No, that is correct, no, we do not.
     3
     4   Q.   Let us have a look at the beef line, is what they have
     5        called it, is this the sort of thing one could expect to
     6        find in the United States or in Australia?
     7        A.  Yes, it is.
     8
     9   Q.   South America?
    10        A.  It is fairly typical, yes.
    11
    12   MR. MORRIS:  Can I ask a fairly obvious question?
    13        A.  Sure.
    14
    15   Q.   Do we know if this is a current plan because may be we
    16        might have to use it, I do not know.
    17
    18   MR. RAMPTON:  I have no idea.
    19
    20   MR. MORRIS:  You do not know if it is a current plan.
    21
    22   MR. RAMPTON:  No idea.  All I can tell your Lordship is that its
    23        provision to us was prompted by the recent statement from
    24        the witness Hovey.
    25        A.  I might add, that even if it is not current you will
    26        not see many changes in the design of a plant.  You might
    27        see some changes in the equipment that is used but the
    28        design is fairly typical.
    29
    30   Q.   Before I ask you any detailed questions about it (and
    31        I will not have very many of those), assuming that this
    32        plan accords with the reality on the ground, does it seem
    33        to you that it is a satisfactory sort of operation?
    34        A.  From looking at the design of the plant, yes.
    35
    36   Q.   We start, as I said, at the cattle race on the left-hand
    37        side of the sheet coming up into the cattle stun pen.  In
    38        your experience, do cattle ever go up -- I should put the
    39        question a different way:  In your experience, in what
    40        numbers do cattle descend or go down the cattle race, in
    41        pairs, three's, four's?
    42        A.  No, one at a time.
    43
    44   Q.   When they get to the door or the edge of the blue box
    45        marked "cattle stun pen", are they able to see what is
    46        happening inside the pen or not?
    47        A.  It is difficult to see from the design, but normally
    48        there is a door that is closed so that the animal will not
    49        see what is ahead of him or the animal that is in front
    50        will not see what is behind of him. 
    51 
    52   Q.   Do not this as your guide in the sense you obviously cannot 
    53        tell since it is a ground plan?
    54        A.  Normally, that is the case.
    55
    56   Q.   Give us a typical answer:  Would the sides of the cattle
    57        race be open, would they be walled or what would they be?
    58        A.  No, they would be walled.  Normally, it is concrete
    59        that is used as the walls and it is closed.
    60

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