Day 066 - 14 Dec 94 - Page 45
1 exports; their beef and their chickens seem to be local?
2 A. That is correct.
3
4 Q. There is, however, some kosher slaughtering if you look at
5 the bottom at the beef column?
6 A. Yes, but it is not for us.
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8 Q. Not for you, no. Can I ask you this: Sometimes one sees
9 that the cattle are slaughtered by a religious method, it
10 might be Kosher, it might be Halal, but not the chickens.
11 Is there a reason for that?
12 A. The chickens too.
13
14 Q. If they are?
15 A. But you are right, that there is a tendency to
16 concentrate more on beef.
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18 Q. On the beef?
19 A. Yes, that is more traditional.
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21 Q. The next one is to your own country, I think, Mexico, is it
22 not?
23 A. That is correct.
24
25 Q. One sees that some of their beef is imported from other
26 countries, some of it is local, USA and Australia. Then
27 one sees in "product exported to", "Mexico", that is
28 merely, is it, a repetition of the assertion that the
29 Mexicans in that particular supplier got their beef from
30 the USA?
31 A. That is correct.
32
33 Q. Do some of these -- it appears that they do -- USA
34 companies, Montfort, Excel, AMM Australia, have actual
35 plants or establishments in Mexico?
36 A. No, they do not.
37
38 Q. They do not?
39 A. No. They are the plants approved by the United States
40 Department of Agriculture, but in this case we buy the raw
41 materials from Australia or the US and they are processed
42 in Mexico, and we buy a small proportion of our beef from
43 local sources to develop again at the industry.
44
45 Q. So the slaughtering details recorded here must come from
46 Australia or the USA?
47 A. That is correct -- with the exception of what is
48 referred to as Ugasa which is a local producer in Mexico.
49
50 Q. Then if you look at the last two pages, the pork and the
51 chickens all seem to be local, do they not?
52 A. There is a small production of pork and chicken in
53 Mexico. We are now currently, with the opening of the
54 borders with NAFTA coming into play, we are importing
55 chicken products from the US.
56
57 Q. If you turn to the next one which is R, El Salvador, one
58 notices that the product supplier in El Salvador seems to
59 get his beef from Guatemala?
60 A. It is beef, oh, at that time?
