Day 037 - 14 Oct 94 - Page 69


     
     1   Q.   --- irritating for you as a witness that you are not
     2        allowed to ask counsel questions, you are not, and nor
     3        would anyone be allowed to ask Mr. Morris or Ms. Steel
     4        questions.  Answer the question.  If I think it is unfair
     5        I will interrupt myself.
     6        A.  I suddenly seem to find myself on trial here.
     7
     8   Q.   Do not be inhibited from adding to your answer, but answer
     9        the question first of all.
    10        A.  I thought I was here to assist the court and I seem to
    11        be on trial here.
    12
    13   Q.   Our system is that in the first instance that is done by
    14        asking the questions put to you.  Anyway, you did not have
    15        in mind any particular corporation?
    16        A.  No.
    17
    18   MR. RAMPTON:  Did you have in mind, Mr. Cox, an allegation to
    19        the effect that Mr. McDonald's chop down rainforests in
    20        order to grow beef for their hamburger?
    21        A.  No, I did not have that allegation in mind
    22        specifically as far as McDonald's are concerned.
    23
    24   Q.   That was not quite the answer to my question.
    25        A.  I thought it was.
    26
    27   Q.   Do you have in mind an allegation that McDonald's chopped
    28        down rainforest in order to grow beef?
    29        A.  Well, all I can do is repeat my answer.  No, I did not
    30        have that allegation in mind.
    31
    32   Q.   Turn back, please, a page to the beginning, two pages
    33        I beg your pardon.
    34        A.  Yes.
    35
    36   Q.   Part one in the beginning.  Is that in your stack of
    37        papers?
    38        A.  If you do not mind I will use my own book here.
    39
    40   Q.   Perfectly happy about that.  "In the beginning", this is
    41        where you start, I am not going to read very much of
    42        this.  I am going to start, if I may, in the second
    43        column, the right-hand column with the first unindented
    44        paragraph "Inevitably".
    45
    46   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Which page?
    47
    48   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, page 1:  "Inevitably, with the huge
    49        upsurge of interest in vegetarian living, various other
    50        terms have been used, sometimes inaccurately.  For 
    51        example, it is incorrect to call someone who refrains from 
    52        red meat, but who still eats chicken and fish, a 
    53        vegetarian.  Other terms such as 'semi-vegetarian' or
    54         'demi-vegetarian' are occasionally encountered, although
    55        they have very little practical meaning. The essence of
    56        vegetarianism is the absolute refusal to eat another
    57        creature; and that is not something which is amenable
    58        to compromise".
    59
    60        Mr. Cox, is that the point of view which you personally

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