Day 049 - 09 Nov 94 - Page 07
1 would send a letter to schools within an area and then they
2 would respond to that letter and invite you to do a talk.
3 But it was always by invitation, of course.
4
5 Q. If you could just explain a bit about what the talks
6 consisted of?
7 A. They would vary according to the age group. With
8 teenagers, it would tend to be showing a video which lasted
9 about 20 minutes. You would then either go straight into a
10 long debate or you would talk, yourself, for ten or
11 15 minutes and then have a debate, the whole thing lasting
12 a half an hour.
13
14 With young children, it would be a very different format.
15 There would not be any video shown. You would usually go
16 into the school because you were asked to talk about more
17 the health side of food, rather the environment or animals.
18 So you would just actually talk about the kids about those
19 issues, and they would ask you lots of questions; and you
20 just get into a question and answer session -- very
21 informal, really.
22
23 Q. So in all the talks that you did, there was always a
24 section of debate at the end?
25 A. Always, yes.
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27 MS. STEEL: You said in your statement that the leaflet that is
28 the subject of this action says that the effect of
29 McDonald's ads is to trap children into thinking they are
30 not normal if they do not go there, too; and you said that,
31 in your experience, you had found that to be true. Can you
32 just explain----
33
34 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Just pause a moment. Do you want to ask
35 Miss Gallatley if she would like her statement to be read
36 as part of her evidence, or not, in this case?
37
38 MS. STEEL: Are you happy for your statement to be read as part
39 of the evidence?
40 A. Yes.
41
42 Q. Have you got a copy there?
43 A. I have, yes.
44
45 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You can direct her, if you want, to any
46 particular part of it.
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48 MS. STEEL: We were on the section about the effect of the
49 advertisements entrapping children into thinking they are
50 not normal if they do not go there. As I say, you said you
51 found that to be true. Can you explain how and why you
52 found that to be true?
53 A. Because for teenagers, for example, once the talk was
54 given, a lot of the pupils would talk about changing their
55 diet either by, say, reducing meat consumption or by going
56 vegetarian. Some of the objections that were brought up by
57 those teenagers to, for example, giving up meat, is that
58 they could not go into McDonald's, which genuinely
59 surprised me, that that would be the only objection they
60 had in their own mind to not eating meat.
