Day 113 - 03 Apr 95 - Page 07

     
     1   Q.   Were you also a referee for the Royal Society of Chemistry?
     2        A.  I was, yes.
     3
     4   Q.   That meant that papers were, in effect, submitted to you
     5        before being published?
     6        A.  Vetting, yes.
     7
     8   Q.   To be vetted.  While you were engaged in your professional
     9        duties, did you also develop particular interests related
    10        to that?
    11        A.  Yes.  I did a lot of charity work which I still do,
    12        primarily concerned with matters of human and animal
    13        welfare.  It was largely carrying on a tradition in my
    14        family.  My mother had been very active with the RSPCA, for
    15        instance.
    16
    17   Q.   But in terms of, say, research relevant to this case?
    18        A.  Yes.  Relevant to animal welfare in markets, in
    19        slaughterhouses, on farms, as well as matters to do with
    20        health, if the diet was changed, because I was by way of
         being a nutritionist and biochemist, so that all of that
    22        was integrated well with my charitable works.  I was
    23        involved with various and have been (and still am) with
    24        both hospital and medical groups looking at epidemiological
    25        studies.
    26
    27   Q.   Of diseases?
    28        A.  Yes.  I prefer to call it health, to take the positive
    29        side.
    30
    31   Q.   But in terms of animal welfare, how long have you been
    32        engaged in research relevant to that?
    33        A.  That has gone on, in earnest, I suppose, since the late
    34        1940s, just after the end of the World War II and early
    35        1950s.
    36
    37   Q.   What as part of your research have you been doing over
    38        those years?
    39        A.  Well, in general, I was looking at conditions of
    40        farming, food health and the land, which I gathered
         together in a Green Plan which I launched for the
    42        Vegetarian Society on those subjects in 1976 which, I must
    43        say, I did not solve a lot of problems but at least
    44        positive the problems that we should be addressing
    45        ourselves to, particularly as people interested in animal
    46        welfare, the health of animals, people and the land, and so
    47        it included environmental matters.
    48
    49   Q.   The nuts and bolts of how you have conducted your research,
    50        can you just give us some idea throughout the years, what 
    51        you actually physically have been doing? 
    52        A.  I obviously visited the sites.  My training as a 
    53        scientist led me to investigate things as far as I could.
    54        I also appraised reports from scientific groups who are
    55        studying this as well I could.  I contributed to some of
    56        those reports as well.
    57
    58        I contributed quite a lot of evidence (or I have been,
    59        still) to organisations like the RSPCA, the Ministry of
    60        Agriculture and then, particularly, the Farm Animal Welfare