Day 080 - 30 Jan 95 - Page 31
1 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You mean pig?
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3 MS. STEEL: Pig meat, yes.
4 A. About 1.3 per cent of the national kill.
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6 Q. Of the national?
7 A. Kill.
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9 Q. Sorry, I do not actually know how many pigs are killed.
10 Can you just tell us roughly?
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12 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Can you give an estimate?
13 A. The reason I said that -----
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15 Q. You get parts of ----
16 A. The reason I said that, my Lord, is that I know that
17 figure and I cannot remember it. It is over there in that
18 briefcase.
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20 Q. What, how many?
21 A. How many pigs we use. I am just standing here and
22 after lunch I will answer the question.
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24 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, also in that briefcase I happen to know
25 -- I think it was that briefcase because I was shown it --
26 there are some pictures of carcasses, cattle carcasses,
27 which in due course -- not now -- your Lordship might like
28 to see just to show where it has come from.
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30 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Let us take it point by point. This is the
31 number of pigs which have to be killed in a year to provide
32 you with ----
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34 THE WITNESS: I will find it, sir. Pork, could you ask the
35 question again, please?
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37 MS. STEEL: How many?
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39 MR. JUSTICE BELL: How many pigs do you require a year?
40 A. 255,270.
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42 MS. STEEL: Do you use the whole of the pig or is it like with
43 cows?
44 A. Please, I am just -- please, I have just read you the
45 wrong figure. 180,378 pigs which is 3,765 head per week
46 and the total pork killed -----
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48 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You are getting very feint again.
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50 MR. JUSTICE BELL: 3,700 -----
51 A. Sorry, sir, the poundage of pork per year, 2,777,832,
52 which is equivalent to 180,378 pigs which is 3,765 pigs per
53 week. The total UK kill is 15,032,000 so we are using 1.2
54 per cent of the total pig slaughterings.
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56 MS. STEEL: The figure you initially read out of 255,270, what
57 was that figure for?
58 A. Beef.
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60 Q. That was for beef, was it?
