Day 275 - 08 Jul 96 - Page 15

     
     1        anything new.  They were all things I had heard before from
     2        various sources, and I believed they were true.
     3
     4             I can remember some specific things that I have read
     5        or seen before we got the writs.  For example, working for
     6        the Big Mac, I remember reading through at least part of
     7        that when I saw it in the London Greenpeace office.  I
     8        remember reading parts of "Hoof Prints in The Forest", I
     9        also remember reading the Veggies' correspondence at some
    10        time, and in fact I remember reading the article that
    11        appeared in Peace News, which has been referred to in
    12        court, at the time, or around the time, that that would
    13        have been printed because I used to read Peace News on a
    14        fairly regular basis.  So, as far as I was concerned,
    15        everything that I had read in the fact sheet I believed to
    16        be true, it was all things that I had seen elsewhere, it
    17        was nothing new.
    18
    19             If I just carry on reading.
    20
              "I have read a number of articles and books and seen a
    22        number of documentaries about pollution and destruction of
    23        the environment brought about by the type of society we
    24        live in today, about the destruction of forests for paper
    25        and other products, about the pollution of the atmosphere,
    26        land and seas, involved in the oil/petrol chemical industry
    27        and production of plastic based products.  This has
    28        included a number of articles specifically about McDonald's
    29        use of packages, both polystyrene and paper, and the use of
    30        CFC's and later HCFC's, all of which harm the environment
    31        in various ways.  I have also walked past numerous branches
    32        of McDonald's and seen piles of environment/index.html">litter emanating from them
    33        in surrounding streets."
    34
    35             Actually, I should mention here that the photographs
    36        put to Paul Preston at the beginning of the trial were
    37        photographs which I took in Wood Green High Street.  I have
    38        not actually brought them with me, I completely forgot
    39        about them.  Do I need to bring them in?
    40
    MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Do you?
    42        A.  Do I need to bring them in and formally confirm them?
    43        I do not know whether they are in court, but I had
    44        forgotten about them.
    45
    46   Q.   No, I can remember them.  If you want to say a sentence or
    47        two about just when -- I remember what you put to
    48        Mr. Preston, but if you want to say a sentence or two about
    49        where and when you took them?
    50        A.  I cannot actually remember the date, although the date
    51        that I said when I was questioning Mr. Preston would be the
    52        correct date.  I do remember that it was a Saturday
    53        afternoon and it was Wood Green High Street, and that the
    54        photographs that I took were a typical picture.  I mean, I
    55        regularly go to Wood Green High Street on Saturday
    56        afternoons and that is completely typical, that there is
    57        always McDonald's environment/index.html">litter always -- sorry, there is always
    58        McDonald's environment/index.html">litter up and down the pavement on that street,
    59        the High Street.  It is not just on Saturday afternoons as
    60        well, because I go up there at other times and there is