Day 044 - 02 Nov 94 - Page 17

     
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     2   MR. MORRIS:  (To the witness)  You said that the company has an
     3        ethos of care for the public health?
     4        A.  Yes.
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     6   Q.   You attend board meetings, do you?
     7        A.  No, I do not.
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     9   Q.   You attend management meetings?
    10        A.  Yes; on a fairly regular basis, I attend management
    11        meetings.
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    13   Q.   Inter-department meetings; yes?
    14        A.  Yes.
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    16   Q.   You work as a team in McDonald's Corporation, do you not?
    17        A.  Certainly, we work together.  The Marketing department
    18        works as a very good team.
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    20   Q.   You have good inter-departmental team work; yes?  The left
         hand knows what the right hand is doing?
    22        A.  We try.  It is a big company and sometimes we fall over
    23        ourselves, but we try, yes.
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    25   Q.   Within your department, you do from time to time
    26        specifically promote the nutritional value of some of
    27        McDonald's products; is that correct?
    28        A.  Yes, we have in the past.
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    30   Q.   So for that job you would have to be aware of what your
    31        nutritional consultants and department were saying?
    32        A.  Yes, that is correct.
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    34   Q.   So are you aware that many of your food products are high
    35        in fat, sugar and salt, and low in fibre?
    36        A.  Again, I am not a nutritionist, but I can-----
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    38   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Might I suggest you make it more specific?
    39        I think by "high in fat" you mean -- and when it has been
    40        used in the nutritional part of this case, it has been
         taken to mean -- higher than the government guidelines both
    42        in this country and in the United States?
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    44   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.
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    46   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  If you put it to the witness whether he was
    47        aware that many of these food products have a higher
    48        percentage of calories from fat than certain government
    49        recommendations for the diet as a whole, and see whether he
    50        knows about that or not. 
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    52   MR. MORRIS:  (To the witness)  Are you aware of that? 
    53        A.  Again, I cannot tell you right now.  It is not at the
    54        back of my mind----
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    56   Q.   Was your department aware of that?
    57        A.  ----what individual products and their contents are.
    58        What I am very aware of, and what I have been assured by
    59        the nutritionists who work for McDonald's and outside
    60        consultants, is that in the case of a total diet McDonald's