Day 067 - 15 Dec 94 - Page 43
1 MR. RAMPTON: Quite right. I inadvertently misled your Lordship
2 earlier. One can see on the front page that it comes from
3 Connagra, Washington.
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5 MR. MORRIS: One of your suppliers, yes? Connagra is one of
6 your suppliers?
7 A. Connagra?
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9 Q. Yes.
10 A. Connagra is a huge company in the United States and
11 mostly it works on commodities, on grain commodities, as
12 well as chicken production. In the United States they do
13 not supply chicken for us.
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15 Q. They supply beef to you, do they?
16 A. They are owners, Connagra also own slaughterhouses; the
17 companies that own slaughterhouses and debone-ing
18 facilities.
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20 Q. Some of them supply -----
21 A. We do not have an agreement of a close relationship or
22 a supply with them.
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24 Q. Does any beef produced by Connagra end up at the McDonald's
25 stores?
26 A. Could be, yes.
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28 Q. Yes. So, they are one of your suppliers, yes?
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30 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No, they are not.
31 A. That would be an incorrect statement.
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33 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Some of their beef may end up -- have we
34 started cross-examining about Connagra just because there
35 is a "Connagra" stamp on the top?
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37 MS. STEEL: Can you look at your first statement -----
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39 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No, look, we can only have one of you at a
40 time. I was about to say anyway that we are getting back
41 to the situation where it is two questions from one of you
42 ---
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44 MR. MORRIS: We are trying not to but -----
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46 MR. JUSTICE BELL: -- and then two questions from the other.
47 You must do your best.
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49 MS. STEEL: The problem is, see, what happens is if we do not
50 take turns, then usually we try to explain it to the other
51 one and they do not necessarily grasp what we are getting
52 at.
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54 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Nevertheless, you must find a better way of
55 doing it. For the great majority of the case you have
56 managed.
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58 MR. MORRIS (To the witness): Just while we are on the subject
59 of Connagra, they do supply beef to your suppliers for
60 McDonald's?
