Day 101 - 10 Mar 95 - Page 36

     
     1        heavily on the trust of our suppliers and they, in turn,
     2        follow up on their suppliers.  It would not surprise me
     3        that they go to that sort of detail.
     4
     5   Q.   What monitoring of suppliers does McDonald's do in terms of
     6        environmental, social and animal welfare and agro-chemical
     7        policies?
     8        A.  We monitor all our primary suppliers.  So, by primary
     9        suppliers, I mean McKey's are our primary supplier;
    10        suppliers to them would be the abattoirs or boning rooms,
    11        and then the suppliers to the boning rooms would be the
    12        farms or the auction houses.  It is a long chain, and it
    13        would be impossible for McDonald's to monitor every link in
    14        that chain.  What we do do is monitor the first link and
    15        impress on those suppliers the need for them to monitor
    16        further back down the chain.
    17
    18   Q.   What monitoring do you do in terms of environmental effects
    19        of the animals being reared?
    20        A.  As McDonald's we do not -- I have just said, we do not
         go that far back down the chain.
    22
    23   Q.   Can you get the Defendants' First Supplementary List of
    24        Documents?  It will be in those blue files at the top.
    25        A.  Bundle 1?
    26
    27   Q.   Yes, that is right, I think.  If you could turn to document
    28        No. 7, please?
    29        A.  Yes.
    30
    31   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  How long are you going to be on this point
    32        for?
    33
    34   MS. STEEL:  I do not know really.
    35
    36   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Shall we break off there?
    37
    38   MS. STEEL:  Yes.
    39
    40   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  How do you think you are doing?
    41
    42   MS. STEEL:  I have not got masses to go, I do not think.
    43
    44   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  So we will finish comfortably today?
    45
    46   MS. STEEL:  I hope so.
    47
    48   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  We will resume at 2 o'clock.
    49
    50                          (Luncheon Adjournment) 
    51 
    52   MS. STEEL:  If you could turn to page 21 of the document 7, this 
    53        is the McDonald's Fact Book?
    54        A.  OK.  Yes, I have that.
    55
    56   Q.   In terms of the suppliers of animal products, what
    57        monitoring do you do about their effect on the environment?
    58        A.  The effect of animals on the environment, the live
    59        animals, is that what you are talking about?
    60