The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1906-06-01
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SAYS INFECTED MEAT
IS SOLD IN THE H: WEST: s
Commissioner Whalen says Diseased
Meats do not q! Hurt A.nrYlbody--efoy-
eminent Inspector Says no
Tainted Meat is Sold

Chicago, June Health Commits.
sicnef Whalen says meat infected with
tuberculosis is sold to CONSUMERS in
S cattle. Upon lis 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 sccept commits.
sion to investigate the pack 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
government business be declares.
Whalen continued:
mo scientist has yet proved to my
satisfaction that human beings are in
fected by eating such meat. There
may be doubt. but il it ia lot suffi-
cient it will remove an important COM
mereial consideration, meaning a los
of more than $1,000, 900 dollars worth
of meat annually"
Wbalen recommended recently that
the city allow the sale of meat from
lump jaw cattle, provided the in.
fscsed portions are cut ont.
cit may be true that E7rope gets
the first choice of the beef and Amer
lea the second, and Chicago the re-
fuse. If so. it is the fault of che gov
e-nmen1 inspectors. 1t is true the
stock yards are not perfect. Better
sanitation can be had. But do yon
expect us to dynamite 700 acres of
buildings to suit the radica ls?"
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
ter5ay, reiterated with much empha.
Sis his assertion that mot pound of
tainted meat escapes into the local
market"
81 never saw anything like the
frenzy displayed over this question,
ne said "Men who never saw the in
terror OF packing house are learnedly
discussing 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 came here, ten yearg ago.
Just as soon as the tagser' puts
the Suspicious tag on carcass lit Is
hauled off to the governm ent's room
and rocked in there. No one has the
key to the room except the govern
ment. By and by che inspector, who
is q trained veterinary, comes around
and examines the meat.
stIf his judgement corroborates the
verdict Of the 'sagger,' then the ami
NAL is dumped forthwith into the
'tenK' and converted into fertilizer.
The packer gets nothing from that an.
imnI except the hide, hoofs, horns and
the fertilizer. @-'''-
"For anyone to assert condemned
meat escapes into the local market Or
into any ..other market, 10 tie veriest
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A dispatch to The Tribune from
Sioux City; Ia. says:7 So
The statement that stookmen Of the
Central West oppose the bill now be-
fore Congs'ss extending government
fnsepection over domestic and export
MEATS on the ground that amore rigid
inspection law Iwould mean great
loss to the cattiemen, Is irepadiatsd by
j. j. Ryan. Of Fort Dodge, Ia. score
tary OF the Corn Belt Meat Producers
Association, and Murdo Mackenzie,
president Of the American National
Stock Grower6' Association. ~.
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