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     1        it out?
 
     2   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  We may come to that, but on the basis that
              anything you think of yourselves seems to be a good idea,
     3        at least to start with, you have included, in order to get
              that, in all the cattle in the world, i.e. The whole of
     4        the methane emission from cattle.
              A.   Yes.
     5
         Q.   Subject to evidence which comes out later, an awful lot of
     6        the cattle which are emitting that methane will never
              become beef on anyone's plate - whether in a McDonald's
     7        restaurant or anywhere else.
              A.   Yes.
     8
         MR. RAMPTON:  Does it mean this, Professor Duxbury: If, in
     9        fact, McDonald's use of beef is a smaller percentage of
              the world total of cattle than it is of the world total of
    10        beef production, then their responsibility for methane
              emissions will be that much smaller?
    11        A.   Yes, because the total amount of methane liberated is
              known approximately for all ruminant animals.
    12
         MR. JUSTICE BELL: Before we can do a more precise calculation
    13        we need to know what proportion of ruminants become beef?
              A.   Yes.
    14
         MR. RAMPTON:  One will be able to work out, roughly speaking --
    15          Perhaps one will not.
 
    16   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  We will wait and see, but it seems to me
              that unless one can do that, you can get some kind of ball
    17        park figure, but that is it.
              A.   I do not think, my Lord, you will ever be able to get
    18        more than a ball park figure because of the inaccuracies
              in the statistics in a large number of countries in the
    19        world.
 
    20   MR. RAMPTON:  That is the end of Professor Duxbury's evidence
              in-chief.
    21
                                 (Short adjournment)
    22
                                                           2.00 p.m.
    23
                         Cross-examined by the defendants.
    24
         MISS STEEL:  Can I just ask something about the statement?
    25        Does the statement actually go -- is it something that is
              looked at when you come to make your decision or is it 
    26        basically the statement does not matter any more? 
  
    27   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  The latter basically.  I made the suggestion
              that Mr. Lipsett's statement be taken as read into his
    28        evidence, if you wanted it to be, so there was nothing in
              there which you overlooked.  If you want that to happen in
    29        the future with one of your witnesses, say so.  If counsel
              takes a witness through his evidence, the actual evidence
    30        is what he has said in the witness box, save in so far as
              it may have been dealt with in shorthand by referring to

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