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2 MR. JUSTICE BELL: 1.7 or 1.8 per cent?
3 A. Per cent of the total broiler production in the US.
4 The information was in terms of broilers produced came from
5 the United States Department of Agriculture.
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7 MR. MORRIS: So you use something like 107 million birds which
8 is about 1.7, 1.8 per cent of the total used in America?
9 A. We use about 120 million birds.
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11 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No, 120 million.
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13 MR. MORRIS: OK, 120 million.
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15 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Two thirds from Equity.
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17 THE WITNESS: Correct.
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19 MR. MORRIS: We can move on now. Briefly moving on to beef
20 products, I think you commented somewhere in one of your
21 statements that you agreed with the statement of Keith
22 Kenny, McDonald's equivalent to you, or similar to you, in
23 the UK. You just said in your statement: "I confirm the
24 practices and procedures which he describes under these
25 three headings, monitoring, supply" ----
26 A. May I see it?
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28 Q. Yes.
29 A. I do not know remember the context.
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31 Q. It is your supplementary statement.
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33 MR. JUSTICE BELL: If you get yellow IX, please, if you look at
34 tab 3 of that volume, paragraphs 3 and 4, is what
35 Mr. Morris has in mind.
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37 MR. MORRIS: Can you read paragraphs 3 and 4?
38 A. OK, I have.
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40 Q. Obviously, do you agree with that?
41 A. Let me read it.
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43 Q. It is your own statement?
44 A. I do not remember. Let us see. I need to go back and
45 see Mr. Keith Kenny's statement. Where can I find
46 the -----
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48 MR. JUSTICE BELL: All is being said for the moment is that you
49 have read Mr. Kenny's statement, and the practices which he
50 describes under the three heads set out in paragraph 3 are
51 the same in the US and other countries where McDonald's
52 operates, apart from certain minor variations to take
53 account of local regulations?
54 A. Yes.
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56 MR. MORRIS: So you agree with that?
57 A. Yes.
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59 Q. That is to save time. As regards beef, do you know about
60 the McKey's plant in Milton Keynes? Have you visited
