Day 108 - 27 Mar 95 - Page 04

     
     1        A.  Yes.  We produce fact sheets three times a year and a
     2        newsletter for our members.  I do most of the research
     3        connected with producing these fact sheets, and I usually
     4        represent the organisation, if, for instance, in the media
     5        and anything, radio interviews, that sort of thing, and
     6        I attend conferences -- not very frequently but when I can
     7         -- relevant conferences.  So, in fact, I am responsible
     8        for most of the research.  I have also maintained the
     9        poultry that we have had connected with that organisation.
    10        They have been at my home.
    11
    12   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I know it is irritating, but if you can try
    13        to keep your voice up?
    14        A.  I am sorry.
    15
    16   Q.   I have forgotten how many times I have said this, but
    17        whenever Ms. Steel is asking questions, because both the
    18        witness and Ms. Steel are one side of the court, it tends
    19        to ---
    20        A.  I will try.
    21
    22   Q.   -- pass between you two?
    23        A.  Yes, I am sorry.
    24
    25   Q.   If you speak out into the middle of the court as best you
    26        can, please.  Yes?
    27
    28   MS. STEEL:  You have published a book about the intensity of
    29        chicken and egg industries, have you not?
    30        A.  Yes.
    31
    32   Q.   Could you just say a little bit about that book, what it is
    33        called?
    34        A.  "Chicken and egg, who pays the price?"  I just felt it
    35        would be a useful exercise to put down in writing our
    36        experiences and, hopefully, to draw attention to a
    37        different element of the public, and it does only include
    38        my experiences with the battery hen system and the broiler
    39        system, because at the stage I wrote it we had not yet
    40        investigated the turkey industry, which we now have fairly
         deeply.
    42
    43   Q.   Right.
    44        A.  Sorry, I also wanted to put forward our feelings about
    45         -- for instance, there is a chapter called "A Better
    46        Future", I think it is called that, to try to sort out some
    47        of the possible solutions to the problems which have become
    48        immense in the poultry industry, and which farmers find it
    49        very, very hard to get out of, I think, with the best will
    50        in the world. 
    51 
    52   Q.   I cannot remember offhand what the reference for that is, 
    53        but it is in the documents.
    54
    55   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Are you proposing to refer to parts of the
    56        book or do you want me just to know that Mrs. Druce wrote
    57        it
    58
    59   MS. STEEL:  I do not think -- I am not really sure -- we are
    60        intending to refer to parts of it.