Day 092 - 27 Feb 95 - Page 40
1 of blood, we would have to go back to Harley. We will
2 resume at 2 o'clock.
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4 MR. MORRIS: Can I just ask, can we ask for an indication from
5 Mr. Hill when his letter of affidavit is going to come
6 about Costa Rica.
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8 MR. RAMPTON: I think they have had it.
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10 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Sort that out between now and 2 o'clock.
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12 (Luncheon Adjournment)
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14 MS. STEEL: What quantity of chicken meat or what quantity of
15 chickens that are killed for the meat used by McDonald's in
16 the USA?
17 A. We produce about 200 million pounds to 250 million
18 pounds.
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20 Q. How many pounds of meat would you get from a chicken, would
21 McDonald's get?
22 A. We normally grow the chickens to anywhere from 6 to 6.5
23 pounds. From that you can take 70 per cent carcass weight,
24 and then boneless meat is probably 50 per cent.
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26 MR. JUSTICE BELL: So it is about three pounds to
27 three-and-a-quarter pounds?
28 A. Yes, a little bit less once you trim the things that
29 were specifications, but that is what it would yield in
30 terms of meat.
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32 MS. STEEL: So probably, what, three pounds of meat per bird or
33 less than that?
34 A. A little bit less but a close range.
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36 Q. Two-and-a-half?
37 A. Yes, there are two different, there is males and there
38 is females. The males are grown to 6.5 and the females are
39 grown to a lesser weight.
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41 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Doing your best, two-and-a-half pounds, that
42 would sound fair enough, would it?
43 A. Yes.
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45 Q. That would work out at 80 to 100 million chickens a year?
46 A. Probably so.
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48 MS. STEEL: I read somewhere that it was estimated that in 1985
49 three million broilers were sold each week in the United
50 States for Chicken McNuggets. Do you think that is likely
51 to be true?
52 A. Three million broilers?
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54 Q. Each week.
55 A. In 1993?
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57 Q. In 1985.
58 A. Oh, I do not know.
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60 Q. You do not know?
