Day 245 - 07 May 96 - Page 53


     
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     2   Q.   Then the final page of the London Greenpeace fact sheet
     3        appears on the second page of the bundle on the right-hand
     4        side and it is identical except that at the very bottom
     5        they have added:"At last, a healthy and humane
     6        alternative.  Please read on."
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     8        They have taken off the top strip which says:
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    10        "Produced by Greenpeace London for worldwide
    11        anti-McDonald's protests on United Nations World Food
    12        October 16th"?
    13        A.  I have got that page, yes.
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    15   Q.   Do you see that that is identical apart from those parts?
    16        A.  Yes.
    17
    18   Q.   So you would agree that that Veggies leaflet contains the
    19        entire London Greenpeace fact sheet which you are currently
    20        suing over?
    21        A.  Yes.
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    23   Q.   If you turn over to the page behind that there is a letter
    24        from Barlow Lyde & Gilbert to the Managing Director of
    25        Veggies Limited and it is dated 8th October 1987.
    26        A.  8th October 1987, yes.
    27
    28   Q.   Yes.  It says:
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    30        "We are instructed by McDonald's Corporation of Oakwood,
    31        Illinois who run the McDonald's chain in the USA and
    32        elsewhere in the world.
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    34        There has come to our client's attention a leaflet
    35        published and/or distributed by your company and dated June
    36        1987" -- which incidentally is the one we have just been
    37        looking at and if you look on the first page of it, it has
    38        got the date June 1987 on there?
    39        A.  Yes I have got it.
    40
    41   Q.   "Which contains an article entitled:  'What is wrong with
    42        McDonald's'.  We believe this article emanates from an
    43        organisation known as Greenpeace London.  It is offensive
    44        and grossly defamatory of our clients who, through us, have
    45        obtained and printed a policy and corrections from many
    46        other publications including other student newspapers and
    47        indeed from BBC 2 concerning the allegations it contains.
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    49        The article suggests that our clients are guilty of murder
    50        and torture because of the manner in which they obtain 
    51        their meat produces.  It is alleged that they slaughter 
    52        beef cattle which has been reared on ranches created out of 
    53        former rainforests which they have been instrumental in
    54        destroying and further that the wood from the trees in
    55        those forests has been used in the production of paper bags
    56        which our client use.  All this is totally untrue and, on
    57        our client's behalf, we will set the record straight as
    58        follows.
    59
    60        1.  Our clients neither own, run nor manage

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