Day 273 - 03 Jul 96 - Page 28
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2 MS. STEEL: Do you want to go through naming the pages in the
3 order that they come in?
4 A. It is probably not critical.
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6 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I do not think that is necessary. As long
7 as I understand it is just as it was handed out.
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9 MS. STEEL: I just thought it might be helpful because when we
10 have only got the transcript, or anything like that, and
11 then at least it is on the transcript.
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13 MR. MORRIS: It is all right. I have got a spare copy. Just go
14 through it formally. The front cover is the same as the
15 London Greenpeace fact sheets, with the picture. The
16 second page, this leaflet is asking you "... to think" etc.
17 The third page, "Hungry children and fat cattle, choose
18 life."
19 A. That would have been added by Veggies.
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21 Q. Fourth page, "50 acres minute." Fifth page, "getting the
22 chemistry right." Sixth page, "what is your poison" box,
23 the first box. Seventh page, the end is, "who made this
24 leaflet, London Greenpeace group." And then the last page
25 "Veggies information." Added by Veggies, yes?
26 A. That is right.
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28 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Now, what I am going to do is put this, as I
29 now have it, at the beginning of 208. Anyone else can do
30 what they wish with it, but that is what I am doing and I
31 have written on a note to the effect it says "produced by
32 Mr Smith".
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34 MR. MORRIS: Yes, it is, in fact, just the pages in 208 folded
35 together.
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37 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Well, I understand that, but in case it is of
38 significance when there is any discussion of the evidence
39 and what any witness actually saw being held, or handed
40 out, that is what I have got.
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42 MR. MORRIS: Right. That is great. I will carry on reading.
43 It will all become clear. Reading from the statement:
44 "On 8th October 1987 Veggies Limited received a letter
45 from Barlow Lyde and Gilbert, solicitors instructed by
46 McDonald's Corporation at Oakwood, Illinois. The letter
47 demanded that Veggies Limited should publish "correction
48 and apology" specifically with reference to the allegation
49 that McDonald's restaurants were implicated in the
50 destruction of rainforests. While seeking advice on the
51 issues raised by the letter, details of the Veggies Limited
52 position reached the journal "Peace News". "Peace News"
53 published an article on 30th October 1986. Is that
54 correct?
55 A. No, it is a typing error there. Of course, it was
56 October 1987 that article would have appeared.
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58 Q. Right. So we can change that to 1987. "...which pointed
59 out that in their letter of the 8th October McDonald's
60 solicitors had only asked for a retraction of the
