Day 016 - 22 Jul 94 - Page 69
1 quality of McDonald's food?
A. That is right, yes.
2
MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, it is entirely accepted on behalf of the
3 plaintiffs, and I make this clear now, that whether or not
McDonald's may properly be described as "junk food" is
4 entirely a question of individual opinion. What is
objected to in this leaflet is not the suggestion that
5 McDonald's food is junk food, but that it kills its
customers.
6
MR. MORRIS: McDonald's food has been described in this court
7 as various things -- nutritious?
A. Where are we referring to now?
8
Q. I am going to ask you the question: Various adjectives
9 have been used to describe McDonald's food which may or
may not mean anything. But you are their nutritionist,
10 whether No. 1 or No. 2, we do not know?
A. It is irrelevant.
11
Q. It has been said that McDonald's food is the kind of food
12 that people might serve up in their kitchen if they were
making it at home. Is that fair comment to you?
13 A. Yes, it is; people do it. People buy hamburgers, they
take them home, they grill them, they put them into a
14 hamburger bun. Even with supermarkets you can buy
ingredients and you can take them home.
15
Q. We are talking about making them. I think the phrase was
16 "the kind of ingredients that would be in the basic staple
ingredients of man" -- I would not use the word "man" --
17 "of humans for thousands of years", is that true, does
that adequately describe McDonald's food to you?
18 A. Well, I do not think there is any argument that milk,
meat and grain have all been eaten in one form or another
19 by humans for centuries, in fact, as far back as you care
to go.
20
Q. You advise McDonald's on nutrition, yes?
21 A. Yes, I do.
22 Q. On their ingredients they use in their food?
A. Not necessarily on the ingredients. I am concerned
23 with the nutritional composition of the final product.
24 Q. Of the final product. What is your advice, for example,
on the final product such as diet coke? What do you
25 advise nutritionally about diet coke?
A. Diet coke is not something I have ever given advice
26 on.
27 Q. You do not give advice on that. Do you give advice on
their birthday cake?
28 A. No, I have not.
29 Q. You do not. Do you give advice on their ---
A. I mean, let me make it clear.
30
Q. -- hot pie desserts?
