Day 049 - 09 Nov 94 - Page 37

     
     1        they all have a great nutritional knowledge.
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     3   Q.   Then I come back to it:  what is your objection to the
     4        association between ronald mcdonald and the medical and
     5        dental professions?
     6        A.  Because the endorsement by the dental and medical
     7        profession is saying to those children that there is
     8        absolutely nothing wrong with eating McDonald's products
     9        and, from so many health reports from all over the world,
    10        they are saying that children should cut down on the junk
    11        food that they eat, not increase it, and not be told that
    12        it is a good thing to do. They should be actively
    13        discouraged from eating it.
    14
    15   Q.   How do you know that dentists, doctors and, I may add,
    16        parents throughout this country, most of whom are
    17        reasonably grown up, are not actually telling their
    18        children and, indeed, making their children eat a balanced
    19        diet?  What evidence do you have?
    20        A.  I read a survey which said that 50 percent of British
         children did have a junk food diet and that three quarters
    22        of them ate too much saturated fat in their diet.
    23
    24   Q.   When did you read that?
    25        A.  About four months ago -- the latter.
    26
    27   Q.   Who was it published by?
    28        A.  I am afraid I cannot remember.
    29
    30   Q.   Who was it done by?
    31        A.  I cannot remember.  If I had known I was going to be
    32        asked those kinds of questions, I would have looked them
    33        up, but I have not got that kind of memory.
    34
    35   Q.   Do you know Ms. Sue Dibb and Mr. Tim Lobestein of the
    36        Food Commission?
    37        A.  I know who they are.  I do not know them greatly or
    38        anything.
    39
    40   Q.   Do you read their literature?
         A.  Yes, I do.  I also read that of the World Health
    42        Organisation, which says what I have just been saying that
    43        people, especially children, should be eating more fresh
    44        fruit and vegetables, more fibre, less sugar and less
    45        saturated fat, and it does not seem to me that McDonald's
    46        exactly fall in line with those recommendations.
    47
    48   Q.   No, Ms. Gallatley, they probably do not, and I do not
    49        suppose you eat seven meals a week or three meals a day,
    50        seven days a week at McDonald's, either, do you? 
    51        A.  No, I do not, but I think what McDonald's are doing by 
    52        their advertising, very heavy advertising to very young 
    53        children, is encouraging them to eat it too much and too
    54        often.
    55
    56   Q.   Do you have any evidence that it is actually happening?
    57        A.  Yes.  As I have just said, unfortunately, I cannot
    58        produce these documents, but I have read that 50 percent of
    59        British children are on a junk food diet and I have heard
    60        that quoted by many medical doctors.