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1 did not have any animal welfare policy?
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3 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You had better put the word "written" in, had
4 you not? I mean, maybe you are saying general but at the
5 moment you are written, you see.
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7 MR. MORRIS: You would agree ----
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9 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Take it in stages. Take "written" first and
10 then go to "any".
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12 MR. MORRIS: Is there any written animal welfare policy of the
13 McDonald's Corporation apart from that mention or by
14 implication there?
15 A. I need to -- I think -----
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17 MR. RAMPTON: Maybe I can take it this far in aid of Dr. Gomez
18 Gonzalez' deliberations over lunch, if one looks at page
19 21, one sees the international product specification
20 addendum, and one looks at paragraph No. 3 at the bottom of
21 the page, I do not think know if that helps or not?
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23 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I am going to break off now. I would like
24 you to take that pink volume away with you. You have a
25 number of things to do. I want you to look in the pink
26 volume. What we are looking for at the moment really (and
27 then you, no doubt, will be asked more questions if we have
28 an answer to that question) is whether there is any
29 reference in any document that we can find to the Humane
30 Slaughter Act seems to me to be the first step. We have
31 other references which at best might be said to be more
32 oblique. It sounds to me as if you have in mind that there
33 was a reference to the Humane Slaughter Act?
34 A. Yes, I seem to remember that part.
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36 Q. Right, I will come back at ten past two.
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38 MR. MORRIS: Can we ask if the witness can be reminded that he
39 is not allowed to discuss this with the -----
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41 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No. All you are going to do over lunch-time
42 is draw to Mrs. Brinley-Codd's attention any other
43 documentation in your briefcase which may be relevant to
44 the issues. Mrs. Brinley-Codd will make sure that any such
45 discussion does not embark on to fact-finding or search of
46 this bundle of the kind I have referred to. What I would
47 like you to do is think and look to see if you can find any
48 reference to the Humane Slaughter Act as well.
49 A. Yes, OK.
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51 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I will come back at ten past two.
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53 (Luncheon Adjournment)
54 2.10 p.m.
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56 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, before we start again I have looked at
57 this document signed by Dr. Mark Pattison, dated March
58 1993, Presentation of McDonald's staff, 1st April 1993.
59 I have no reason to suppose that it is in any sense
60 privileged. It seems to have come into this court via
