The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-05
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The p%arters' reply follows
For weeks newspapers throughout the
country have fairly reeked with Islander,
al tending 20 create the belief that the large
Packers Of this country ARE in the business
~ selling condemned and diseased meat 10
the public, These ISLANDERS nave done in
calrrlabIe harm to the meat industry, and
to the general public. which has been preju-
diced with suspicion Of its daily food.
The question raised by these ISLANDERS as
h. whether diseased meats are sold from
our packing houses is the question on which
the whole world wants the facts. The truth
must be told and told emphatically if the
entire meat and live stock industry is to
have a square deal and escape further
danger. Yet this vital sid of the whole
investi CATION is absolutely ignored in the
Presidents message and all but omitted
from notice in the Neill-Reynolds report.
Every pound of meat in our packing
houses comes from animals which are
inspected and passed by trained veterinary
agents of the Department Of Agriculture.
This is the absolute fact. We are not inter-
estad in animals condemned before slaugh-
ter. We do not buy them. Every animal
bought by us is inspected, both before
and after slaughter, in accordance with
the ~strictest inspection regulations ever
devised in any country, not even excepting
Germany. Every animal or carcass that
does not pass this rigid inspection is con.
demned and disposed Of under the personal
supervision OF the agents of the United
States Department of Agriculture.
The administration at Washington knows
Reynolds report know them. That these
are the facts is reluctantly admitted in their
report. but even this slight reinsurance
to The public is almost buried in the tail end
Of what they nave written.
we have been believers in rigid animal
and meat inspection since inspection was
first inaugurated. We have shown our
belief in it by shouldering, for the benflt
of the industry, an annual loss of approx
mately one million dollars u loss on
animals which are thought healthy and are
condemned on inspection after slaughter.
And now, in spite of persistent misrepre-
sentation, we are heartily in favor of max
ing this inspection more efficient if that can
he done, and extending the operation Of
the law to cover the sanitary conditions
OF packing houses, and we hope legislation
will he enacted that will compel our COM
petitors to live up to the high standards
that We have always tried to maintain.
1T Is to lie regretted that Messrs. Neill
and Reynolds did not get a practical light
on their subject before writing q report in
which it is apparently assumed that blood,
groaus. and the everyday incidents of
ANNA Strengthening are dirt. In contrast
with their views we respectfully call pubAe
attention to a report on packing house GU
president and professor of bacteriology of
tho University of Illinois. and Prof. H. S.
tTindlev. professor of chemistry at the
University Of Illinois and one of this oun-
try Leading food specialists. This report
by Pr2fs. Blrrill and Grindley recited the
results Of an investigation made within ten
days We submit this report by unpreju-
diced scientific men as our commentary
on the detailed allegations of Messrs. Neill
and Reynolds.
our packing houses are kept clean.
Our methods of manufacture are sanitary.
our products are wholesome. On all of
these points we nave over and over again
satisfied doctors, chemists, sanitarians and
oficial Investigators from practically every
civilized nation on earth, and in doing so
We have made a worldwide market for
American live stock products.
We have steadily and persistently en-
oeaNored to improve our methods. We
claim that we are doing everything that can
he done, and as fast as it can be done, to
secure the best possible methods and the
hHst possible results. In the light of what
We have done and aredoing we have a right,
we believe. to protest against hasty and
empirical judgments that serve only to put
weapons into the hands of foreign COMPETE
tors Of the American live stock and meat
producing industry.
This phase of the question cannot he
ev!aded. AT the risk of being accused
Of trying to hide behind the farmer. We
say. that hasty, i'll digested. Incorporate
cntlcism Of American packing houses
strikes rot at the packers. but at every
farmer who raises a hog, a sheep or a steer
Or market. Without the foreign market