Day 186 - 10 Nov 95 - Page 29
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2 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I have your diet point.
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4 MR. MORRIS: -- but if you are going to link the two, then
5 "higher" would be more reasonable, in our submission,
6 because it is whether their products are making your
7 consumption of the sort of things that we are encouraged to
8 avoid higher or lower. For example, every time you eat,
9 you know, a good healthy meal of vegetables and salads and
10 fruits, whatever, that is going to increase your proportion
11 of high of fibre and vitamins, whatever. So it will not,
12 in itself, that meal, make it high in fibre. It will make
13 it higher. That is all. That is the only -----
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15 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
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17 MR. MORRIS: If that helps.
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19 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I only ask those questions to help clear my
20 own mind. You carry on with your submissions in your own
21 way. Is there anything more you want to say about -----
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23 MS. STEEL: The meaning, well, just you said something about if
24 you had made those changes, would it all be OK? I still
25 want the points about the false claims and what-have-you to
26 be borne in mind. I do not know if you understand.
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28 MR. JUSTICE BELL: That is the last three lines or so of
29 the ......
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31 MS. STEEL: I was not sure quite how far you were going when you
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34 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I am going all the way through. As I say, it
35 is just so I understand where, if at all, the differences
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38 MS. STEEL: Right.
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40 MR. JUSTICE BELL: All I am asking -- you can come back after
41 lunch, if you want, on it -- if it, in fact, read:
42 "McDonald's food is unhealthy because it is high in fat,
43 sugar, animal products and salt (sodium) and low in fibre,
44 vitamins and minerals, and eating it might make your diet
45 high or higher, in fat", etcetera, "and low in fibre",
46 etcetera, "with some risk that you might suffer cancer of
47 the breast or bowel or heart diseases as a result, and
48 although McDonald's know, or ought to know, this, they do
49 not make it clear and claim that their food is a useful and
50 nutritious part of any diet", then I am asking: Is there
51 any difference in substance between that and the meaning
52 which you have suggested as your equivalent of Plaintiffs'
53 F?
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55 MS. STEEL: I only think the main thing is basically there is
56 not a massive amount of difference, except that our
57 pleading concentrates more on diet than on McDonald's food
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60 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes. Where are you going to go to now in
