Day 094 - 01 Mar 95 - Page 20
1 A. I do not want to speculate, but I will tell you that
2 there are, that is the primarily -- I do not know what he
3 means by, I was told by whom. They do not let -- they have
4 the responsibility and they have the authority to prevent
5 that from happening. We do not relied absolutely into the
6 US DA in this case. We have our own people that do that.
7 We will not let that happen into our products.
8
9 Q. So you would not take any action if you heard a comment
10 like that? You would assume that it was not true.
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12 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Can I just make what seems to me to be a
13 common sense suggestion? There may be a difference between
14 reading a report of something in a newspaper and actually
15 having it said to you. Dr. Gomez Gonzalez' reaction might
16 be different reading about something which is alleged to
17 have been said by an unidentified person in a newspaper, on
18 the one hand, and actually while walking around the plant
19 having a Tyson's inspector saying: "This is what is
20 happening here". So, if you are saying: "If this was
21 said, what is your reaction?" you have to make sure he
22 understands the context in which you are putting it.
23
24 MS. STEEL: Have you got the report there?
25 A. What report?
26
27 Q. The newspaper report.
28 A. Yes, I do.
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30 Q. In the section: "The price of cheap chicken"?
31 A. Yes.
32
33 Q. You see there are two Tyson plants ringed there. The
34 quotes are just above them. In fact, the inspectors are
35 named there. If you read that in the newspaper, would it
36 concern you enough to take any action to investigate
37 whether it was true, or would you just make the assumption
38 that it was not true?
39 A. OK. This is not one of our facilities. I cannot
40 comment on somebody else's business.
41
42 Q. It is the same company, though, is it not?
43 A. It is a different -----
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45 Q. It might be thought they had the same standards?
46 A. While it is the same company, we have a McDonald's unit
47 that is totally separate from the Tyson facilities to
48 prevent our competitors from gaining our technology, and
49 everything else, and the confidentiality of our products.
50 It is totally separate. Our people are totally separate.
51 Their management is totally separate from the Tyson
52 facility.
53
54 Q. So do Tyson work different standards then in the kind of
55 birds that they will use?
56 A. I cannot tell you that. I have not -----
57
58 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Can we take them separately because I have to
59 say I am not much moved by the first one about dropping the
60 chicken in a fresh manure pile and eating it, because
