Day 053 - 22 Nov 94 - Page 31
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2 MS. STEEL: Those components.
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4 MR. MORRIS: "Components" -- maybe that is an explanation of the
5 word "contents".
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7 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Just pause a moment. What I have written
8 down -- tell me if this reflects your argument -- F, as
9 originally pleaded, referred to the contents of an average
10 McDonald's meal, that is fat, saturated fat, sodium and
11 lack of fibre, et cetera, as being linked with cancer and
12 heart disease, that is, not necessarily McDonald's meals
13 themselves; whereas the amendment refers to the meals
14 themselves.
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16 MS. STEEL: Yes.
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18 MR. JUSTICE BELL: So you say all that F might have been saying,
19 or was saying originally, was -- forget McDonald's meals --
20 there is a link between high fat, saturated fat and sodium
21 and low fibre and minerals and cancers of the breast and
22 bowel and heart disease?
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24 MR. MORRIS: Yes.
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26 MS. STEEL: Yes. The only way that the McDonald's meal is
27 connected to that is because a McDonald's meal is given as
28 an example of that nutritional content.
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30 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes, I understand.
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32 MS. STEEL: It specifically has to be taken in the context of
33 saying that they tried to make out that their food is a
34 useful and nutritious part, and this is the counter
35 argument.
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37 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What about H, in relation to this?
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39 MS. STEEL: Sorry. When I said "their food", I meant
40 mass-produced hamburgers, chips, colas and milkshakes, and
41 that type of food, not solely their food.
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43 MR. MORRIS: Yes, because the sentence immediately above this
44 sentence is, "McDonald's try to show that mass-produced
45 hamburgers, chips, colas, milkshakes", not "their
46 mass-produced hamburgers, colas, milkshakes".
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48 MS. STEEL: I think that is, again, a part of the argument
49 about they are part of -----
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51 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What, if anything, does H tell you they are
52 alleging? I know it does not include cancer, but it does
53 include clogged arteries and heart attacks.
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55 MS. STEEL: H is specifically based on a separate, different
56 paragraph.
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58 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I have already sought to make the point that
59 you cannot just divide the leaflet up into paragraphs; you
60 have to look at the whole.
