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     1        current action between McDonald's Hamburgers Limited and
     2        Helen Steel and David Morris.  Following threats of legal
     3        action from McDonald's Corporation Veggies Limited modified
     4        the section referring to rainforest destruction and changed
     5        a heading from "In what way are McDonald's responsible for
     6        the torture and murder of animals" to, "In what way are
     7        McDonald's responsible for the slaughtering and butchering
     8        of animals".
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    10             Veggies continued to print the fact sheet which, other
    11        than modifications described, contained all text and
    12        graphics from the original fact sheet.  Veggies Limited
    13        received no further communication from McDonald's
    14        Corporation or their agents to indicate that they have had
    15        further concerns about the contents of the fact sheet.
    16        Since 1987 until the present date Veggies has printed and
    17        distributed various A5 fliers."  Do you mean leaflets?
    18        A.   Leaflets, yes.
    19
    20   Q.   "With extracts from the "What's wrong with McDonald's" fact
         sheet.  These flyers contain the text from the original
    22        fact sheet as well as the modified paragraphs.  Throughout
    23        the period 1988 to 1994 quantities of full fact sheets (as
    24        modified) and the A5 fliers extracted from it were supplied
    25        to Greenpeace London."   Do you corroborate that statement?
    26        A.  That is correct, yes.  That is my statement.
    27
    28   Q.   Can I just ask you a couple of questions about that?  Was
    29        there -- in terms of Veggies A5 leaflets, was it always the
    30        same one that was being printed throughout that period?
    31        A.   It did vary.
    32
    33   Q.   Or were there different versions?
    34        A.   There were different versions.  What Veggies did, it
    35        was really more a printer than the publisher.  We would
    36        simply take leaflets supplied us to by other groups and
    37        print them at their request.  So sometimes other groups
    38        would ask us to reprint their versions of the fact sheet.
    39
    40   Q.   You mean the fact sheet or?
         A.   Of the A5 leaflets.  The full fact sheet would always
    42        have been as the ones have been described in Court today.
    43
    44   Q.   Right.  In terms of what was sent to London Greenpeace
    45        would that always have been the same A5 leaflet or what?
    46        A.   The A5 leaflet may well have varied over the years.
    47        The full version would always have been the version that we
    48        have seen today.
    49
    50   Q.   Right.  Thank you.  So you say it may well have varied.  Is
    51        that, you do not know or -- can you remember?
    52        A.   I cannot remember the sort of specific chronology of
    53        it but there would have been times when one paragraph would
    54        have been more the flavour of the month, as it were, more
    55        concerned with a particular time because obviously the A5
    56        could not contain as much as the full fact sheet.  So,
    57        perhaps, different paragraphs would have been substituted
    58        from time to time.
    59
    60   Q.   Right.  And how would, you said "supplied to Greenpeace