Day 003 - 30 Jun 94 - Page 35


     
     1        suggest that a fastfood service of your scale will
              generate a certain amount of environment/index.html">litter, potential environment/index.html">litter?
     2        A.  I think I would dispute whether we generate it.
              I think we are a source of food materials that are
     3        packaged conveniently for take-away.  There are
              fortunately a small member of the public, small number of
     4        people publicly who do not really dispose of it properly.
 
     5   Q.   I was going to go come on to that, because what you
              actually said, or are reported as having said, is rather
     6        different from the part that the defendants have extracted
              to support their case with.  You go on: "But I have waited
     7        at many a traffic light in London and seen people my age
              throw candy wrappers from their car windows.  I have seen
     8        it as many times as Carter has peanuts", that is President
              Carter of the United States?
     9        A.  Jimmy, yes.
 
    10   Q.   Then you say: It is a British social problem, and given
              all the talent you guys have here, I am surprised you have
    11        not conquered it".  Mr. Preston, whether you remember
              saying that or not.  Does that or does not represent your
    12        view of one of the causes of the problem?
              A.  It certainly represents my views.
    13
         Q.   Do you think there are respects in which your company
    14        could do more to encourage people to be socially
              responsible with their environment/index.html">litter and not throw it out of the
    15        car window or into the gutter?
              A.  I am sure there are.  The whole company ethos is:
    16        Where we are today?  How can we be better in the future?
              It covers everything we touch.
    17
         MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Forgetting your own outlets, is environment/index.html">litter more
    18        of a problem in the UK than it is the States?
              A.  Sir, I have not lived there for 20 years so I do not
    19        have a day in and day out feel.  I would have said it is a
              guesstimate from travelling back and forth.  For a city
    20        of, well, metropolitan area London of nearly 12 million
              people, I would have said a comparable city in North
    21        American of 12 million people in the density there are
              here, there is probably not a lot in it.  It is probably
    22        very very similar.
 
    23   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, Mr. Beavers has actually written a
              statement about it and he will give your Lordship
    24        information about the problem in America tomorrow.
 
    25        So, Mr. Preston, I will if I may leave the problem of
              environment/index.html">litter for the moment.  I pass then to nutrition.  Aside 
    26        from two matters, I have asked you all I need to ask you 
              about that in the course of taking you through the 
    27        pamphlet.  Does your company produce leaflets for the
              information of the public on nutritional matters?
    28        A.  We do and we have for sometime.
 
    29   Q.   My Lord -- I do not ask you to look at them, Mr. Preston
               -- I will pass a couple up just so you can identify them
    30        in their proper coloured form.  I believe these are both
              British versions.  That is an old one because it has Bob

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