The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1906-06-05
SAYS INFECTED MEAT
IS SOLD IN The WEST
Commissioner WhaIen says Diseased
Meats do not Hurt Anybody..Go
ernment Inspector Says no
Tainted Meat is Sold

sioner Whalen says meat infected with
to berouIosis Is sold to consumers in
S cattle. Upon his advice all that is
necessary is to cut out the infected
part.
The city has no authority to prose.
cute packers, if they grind maggoty
beef and label it "po tied ham," No
law reaches them
Whalen wouldn't accept commits
sion to investigate the pacs ers. be-.
cause he says all investigators are rad
icals and foment trouble. He has an
INSPECTOR at tie yards covering 700
acres, who watches the packers all the
time. The inspection of meats is the
governments business he declares.
Whalen continued:
"No scientist has yet proved to my
satisfaction that human beings are in
fected by eating such meat. There
may be doupt. but il it is Lot suffi.
cient it will remove an important COM
mercial consideration, meaning los S
of more than 81. 900, 900 dollars worth
of meat annually"
Whalen recommended recently that
the city allow ths sale of meat from
lump jaw" oattie, provided the in.
fsc;ea PORTIONS are, sas cut.
"It may be true that Europe gets
the first choice of the beef and Amer
lea the second, and Chicago che re :
fuse. If so, it is the fault of the gov.
e-nmeng inspectors. 1t is true the
stock yards are not perfect. Better
sanitation can be had. But do you
expect us to dynamite 700 acres of
buildings to suit the radicals 2"
Chicago, June DIR. s. E. Ben
nett, chief government inspector at
the stockyards in this city. IN speak
ing of the present meat agitation yes
terday, reiterated with much empha.
Sis his assertion that mot a pound of
tainted meat escapes into the local
. market"
II never saw anything like the
frenzy displayed .over this question, "
ne said MEN who never saw the in
terror OF packing house are learnedly
discsu ssing the necessity of giving the
inspector the right to destroy all the
meat they condemn. They do destroy
it now. They always have done so, at
least since 1 came here, ten years ago.
"Just as soon as the tagger' puts
the suspicious tag on a carcass it is
hauled off to the governm ent's room
and locked in there. No Que has the
key to tie room except the govern
1 ment. By and by che inspector. who
is trained veterinary, comes around
and examines the meat.
"If his judgement corroborates the
verdict Of the 'tagger, then the ami
NAL is dumped forthwith into the
'tenK' and converted into fertilizer.
The packer gets nothing from that an.
imal except the hide, boofs, horns and
the fertilizer.
"For anyone to assert condemned
meat escapes into the local market, or
into any other market, is tie veriest
nonsense.
A dispatch to The Tribune from
Sioux City, Ia. says:
The statement that stookmen Of the
Central West oppose the bill now be-
fore Congress extending government
inspection over domestic and export
meats on the ground that more rigid
inspection law would mean great
loss to the cattlemen, is repudiated by
]. j. Ryan. of Fort Dodge. Ia. secre-
tary OF the Corn Belt Meat Producers
Association, and Murdo Mackenzie,
president of the American National
Stock Growers Association.