Day 101 - 10 Mar 95 - Page 38
1 A. Not at all.
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3 Q. Not any of the contract farmers?
4 A. Not as far as I am aware. I know they offer a service
5 to the farms to which they supply the fertilizer as to how
6 much they use, if we are talking about the environment, as
7 an additional protection of the environment.
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9 Q. You do not keep a close check on it?
10 A. No, we do not keep a close check.
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12 Q. You just ask them what they do?
13 A. We are aware what they do, yes. We would talk to them
14 about it. They would make us aware of it but we do not
15 monitor it, no.
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17 Q. Do you monitor what happens to all the waste from the cows
18 that are reared to be turned into McDonald's burgers?
19 A. No.
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21 Q. You do not?
22 A. No. We monitor our suppliers and our suppliers do not
23 have any live cattle.
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25 Q. So, in terms of monitoring manure from cows, your suppliers
26 do not even do that?
27 A. They may well do. I am not aware of any monitoring
28 they do towards it, though.
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30 Q. It is not something you have asked them about?
31 A. No.
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33 Q. What about social policies? I am not sure what that refers
34 to.
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36 MR. RAMPTON: I am not sure that social policies have anything
37 to do with Mr. Kenny, my Lord.
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39 MS. STEEL: Can you tell us what social policies means?
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41 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Do you know what social means there?
42 A. I did not actually write this.
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44 Q. That is why you are being asked if you know what it means
45 which would not be more specifically included in
46 environmental, animal welfare and agro-chemical?
47 A. I would not like to hazard a guess.
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49 MS. STEEL: What about the animal welfare policies of
50 suppliers?
51 A. Sorry, is that a question?
52
53 Q. Yes.
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55 MR. RAMPTON: What is the question?
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57 MS. STEEL: What monitoring do you do of your suppliers on
58 welfare policies?
59 A. OK. For instance, in the beef side of things, if we
60 take McKey's first, they have a department, they have one
