Day 078 - 26 Jan 95 - Page 06
1 MS. STEEL: When was it that you were supplying the US Air
2 Force?
3 A. When we built the plant at Milton Keynes in 1980 it was
4 built for the future development of McDonald's. It
5 follows, therefore, that there was a period where there was
6 spare capacity and it was economic to use that capacity to
7 find alternative customers.
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9 Q. So that was in the early 80s then?
10 A. Yes.
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12 Q. It stopped when?
13 A. Well, as McDonald's took more and more of the
14 production requirement, one by one, to each of those
15 customers, we said: "Thank you, gentlemen, but goodbye".
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17 Q. So when would that have finished altogether?
18 A. About 1987.
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20 Q. Do you supply all of McDonald's hamburgers in this country?
21 A. Yes.
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23 Q. And all of their pork products as well?
24 A. Yes.
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26 Q. Is that everything that you supply or are there other
27 things as well?
28 A. To McDonald's?
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30 Q. Yes.
31 A. Well, it is a fine point but as well as pork products,
32 bacon.
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34 Q. Right.
35 A. For breakfast.
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37 Q. So it is basically just meat from ---
38 A. All the meat requirements.
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40 Q. -- apart from chicken?
41 A. Yes.
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43 Q. How much beef is derived from an average cow?
44 A. For McDonald's?
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46 Q. For in general first?
47 A. Well, if you take a side of beef -- I have to do some
48 mathematics here -- if you have take a side of beef at
49 about 220 pounds, the yield of boneless beef from the whole
50 beast -- from a side, rather, not a whole beef, from a
51 side, about 150 pounds of boneless beef.
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53 Q. Sorry, I should have asked how much would a cow weigh to
54 get that amount of beef from it?
55 A. Do you mean a cow or do you mean a steer and heifer?
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57 Q. What was the example you were giving there; was that a cow
58 or was that a steer?
59 A. I was thinking of a steer then.
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