Day 288 - 28 Oct 96 - Page 02
1 Monday, 28th October 1996
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3 MR. MORRIS: Thank you for the brief moment there. There are
4 just a couple of things before we move on to animals that
5 I want to say. Something I was not sure if I made clear
6 when I was doing the meaning section of the tropical forest
7 rainforest, was I did sort of refer to but I did not
8 specifically, talking about the box, "fifty acres every
9 minute" box, I did say that the area of concern is the one
10 that is supplied by the one billion people, depending on
11 water flowing from these forests, et cetera et cetera. It
12 talks about the disaster in Ethiopia, of which there is a
13 reference to in the very first side, that is the live aid,
14 if you remember, Bob Geldoff raising money for people in
15 Ethiopia, and I was going to make the points that there
16 is.... It says: "The disaster in Ethiopia and Sudan is at
17 least partly due to uncontrolled deforestation". And it
18 talks about Amazonia.
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20 The point I am making is that it is my understanding that
21 there is no rainforest, as defined by McDonald's or
22 Mr. Rampton in this case, in Ethiopia, but there are
23 tropical forests, and that adds weight to our point that
24 the description in the pamphlet, in the important boxes,
25 which is the first two, on that section defines the area of
26 concern as all tropical forests, the lush green belt around
27 the equator.
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29 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You did make those two points before, in
30 fact.
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32 MR. MORRIS: The other thing I have to say is that I was trying
33 to find - I don't know what happened to it - Mr. Malinson
34 produced a sheet with some calculations on it by somebody
35 else about the forest area knocked down. I don't know
36 where it got put.
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38 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It was a Mr. Thomson or something.
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40 MR. MORRIS: Something like that, yes.
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42 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It may be behind his statement. But did you
43 want to make a point on that?
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45 MR. MORRIS: No, it was just I was looking for it, preparing
46 for the packaging section, sorry.
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48 MS. STEEL: I am just looking -- sorry, I couldn't find ----
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50 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Just let me complete my note. (Pause) Yes?
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52 MS. STEEL: If I just say that we were not actually able to get
53 legal advice at the weekend after all, but obviously, you
54 know, we realise we have to carry on anyway, so I will move
55 on to the animal section of the fact sheet.
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57 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Do get the legal advice. I do not think it
58 need be over-complicated. I mean, what occurs to me on
59 animals is it seems to me there is a general sting there,
60 apart from any specific sting, and the question is what you
