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     1        volume 3.
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     3   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes, I have some ----
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     5   MS. STEEL:   Page 44, bundle page 44.
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     7   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   11,800 in 53 countries.  By the end of 1995,
     8        18,400 restaurants in 89 countries.
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    10   MS. STEEL:   Right.  That is in the 1995 annual report.
    11
    12   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   Yes.
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    14   MS. STEEL:   I think they have opened up in India this year, so
    15        it is at least 90 by now, I should think.
    16
    17        Then the leaflet goes on: "This means the constant
    18        slaughter, day by day, of animals born and bred solely to
    19        be turned into McDonald's products."  Since figures have
    20        increased since the fact sheet was written, it obviously
    21        follows that even more animals have been born and bred
    22        solely for McDonald's products.
    23
    24        The document that I have just referred you to in the
    25        defendants' original list of documents does state on the
    26        last page -- it is not the last page in that tab, but it is
    27        the last page of that particular document -- it says that
    28        in 1984, following the successful launch of Chicken
    29        McNuggets, McDonald's - the world's largest user of beef -
    30        is now the world's second largest user of chicken.
    31
    32        I have not got Behind the Arches with me, but on pages 3
    33        and 4 of that book it also says the same thing.  I think
    34        that that they are behind Kentucky Fried Chicken in terms
    35        of being the largest user of chicken.
    36
    37   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   Yes.
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    39   MS. STEEL:   And just on this point further, Fernando Gomez
    40        Gonzales, who is in yellow 9, tab 4, at page 3 of his
    41        statement he says:  It is certainly true that McDonald's
    42        uses enormous amounts of beef and is probably the single
    43        largest user in the world.
    44
    45        And he then says:  I attach Appendix 1, a document showing
    46        the volumes of beef consumed by McDonald's in the USA in
    47        1988, 1989 and 1990.  And that is the 1990 Gee Whiz
    48        numbers, which I think are produced by the McDonald's
    49        Corporation.  And in actual fact it does not only give the
    50        figures for the amount of beef use, it also does it for 
    51        chicken.  And the total for 1990, the total beef used was 
    52        497,869,128 pound of beef, 177,040,456 pounds of chicken. 
    53        And, adding up, there are three columns for pigs, which are
    54        sausage, Canadian bacon and bacon round, they come to
    55        107,845,534 pounds.
    56
    57   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   When you give figures, take them a little
    58        more slowly.  The last one was 177,040,456, was it?
    59
    60   MS. STEEL:   That is right, yes.

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