Day 037 - 14 Oct 94 - Page 68
1 Humans are Natural Vegetarians", under a series of blobs
2 ----
3 A. Sorry?
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5 Q. Page 4 of your book?
6 A. This is not the left-hand column.
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8 Q. Left-hand column on page 4?
9 A. Could you read out the beginning of the passage?
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11 Q. There is a series of five black blobs and underneath that
12 there is a passage that begins "Many of us have heard of"?
13 A. Yes.
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15 Q. "Many of us have heard of 'hamburgerization', the process
16 of turning a tropical forest into hamburgers, using cows
17 as an intermediary. Alan Durning explains: 'Costa Rica,
18 for example, was once almost completely cloaked in
19 tropical forest, holding within its small confines perhaps
20 five per cent of all plant and animal species on earth.
21 By 1983, after two decades of explosive growth in the
22 cattle industry, just 17 per cent of the original forest
23 remained. Throughout the period, Costa Rica was exporting
24 between one-third and two-thirds of its beef, mostly to
25 the US, and it continues to export smaller quantities
26 today. Producing a single Costa Rican hamburger involves
27 the destruction of 55 square feet of rainforest - an area
28 about the size of a small kitchen". Unless you wish me to
29 do so, I will not read the rest of that paragraph because
30 it is amplification of the point made earlier. The
31 question I ask you is this, Mr. Cox: When you wrote that
32 passage and you referred to hamburgerization, did you have
33 any particular companies in mind?
34 A. Well, I mean, I did not write that. It is obviously
35 not my writing. It is a quotation.
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37 Q. You put it in the book?
38 A. From Alan Durning.
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40 Q. You put it in the book?
41 A. Yes, I did put it in the book.
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43 Q. When you put it in the book, if you must chop logic, did
44 you have any companies in mind?
45 A. I am very sorry, Mr. Rampton, I did not hear the whole
46 of that question?
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48 Q. When you decided to put this passage in the book, did you
49 have any particular hamburger companies in mind?
50 A. I am afraid I did not, no. Should I have done?
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52 Q. I ask whether you did. If the answer is, no, you did not,
53 that is the end of it.
54 A. I fail to see the point of your question, but the
55 answer is, no, I did not.
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57 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Try not to ask Mr. Rampton questions. It
58 may be ----
59 A. Sorry.
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