Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-12-16
Meat to Suit All Tastes.

The animals whose flesh Is consid-
cred absolutely dangerous are de-
stroyed But German thrift, taken in
connection with the prevalence of
poverty, makes the authorities unwil-
ling to waste anything that can prop
erly be saved Here comes in one OF
the repulsive features of Berlins
slaughtering system. The animals
killed are divided into four classes.
Those of the first class are sound
throughout, and their meat Is allowed
to go into the general markets. Those
of the second class have some small
local disease which does not faint the
bulk of the meat. In this case the
affected parts are destroyed and the
rest is sold directly to poor consum-
ers in quantities not exceeding six
pounds each. To see women and chill
dren standing in line for chance to
buy the meat of diseased animals is
not an attractive sight, however posi-
tive the assurance that no danger is
to be feared Nor is it made more
attractive by the reflection that but
for the desire to protect German land
lords these people could buy the best
meat for the price they now pay for
a dubious article. Meat of the third
class is that which is so far affected
that it can not safely be sold raw, but
may be eaten without fatal results II
thoroughly sterilized. 1t Is according
ly subjected to temperature OF two
, hundred and thirty degrees in u
steam boiler and is then sold to the
poor like the rest. 1t was in the
cooking room that l noticed, although
family, the only traces of an unpleas-
ant odor observable in the Berlin
stockyards.
The fourth-class animals are those
which are hopeless throughout and
are accordingly destroyed. The Ber-
lin system has the merits and demer-
it's of frankness. The idea of those
poor women and children knowingly
buying meat from diseased animals is
repellent-the openness of the thing
makes it so. But at least the house
keeper in Berlin has the assurance
that If she goes to market for piece
of sound meat she will get 1t. The
other kind is not to be had except at
the slaughter house. There is none of
that uncomfortable dread that even
after paying the price Of a first-class
cut we may be buying some foul mass
of corruption mixed in with the gen
eral stock by thrifty Chicago pack
er.
Must Large Operations Be Repul-
sive?
OF course, the operations at Berlin
are on a much smaller scale than in
Chicago. 1t is a matter of killing
about 5000 cattle a week instead OF
10000, and $4,000 to $4,000 hogs in
stead of 100000.
This fact has been treated by the
Chicago packers as a sufficient eX-
cuse for their failure to reach the
Berlin standard. They say that vast
business enterprise can not be COM
pared with toy. The plea Is palpa-
bly, absurd 1t is usually believed that
wholesale operations can be carried
on more efficiently than retail The
Amerika is kept cleaner than ferry
boat. An international exposition is
better ordered than a country fair 1t
is simply a matter of enlarging the
organization and the working force.
If one Berlin abbatoir can handle five
Thousand cattle a week, ten Berlin alb
batoirs can handle fifty thousand. 1t
is as easy to lay ten floors with tiles
or cement, and pave ten roadways
with clean stone, as one, II you nave
the money, and the money naturally
goes with business ten times as
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