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 WhaIen says Diseased
Meats do noott Hurt ANYBODY ,d Coy os
ernment Inspector Says no
Tainted Meat is Sold


Chicago, June 1.-Health Commits.
sicner 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 labsl it "po tied ham," No
law reaches them
WhaIen wouldn't sccept commits.
sion to investigate the pacs ers, be.
cause he says all Investigators are rad
ioals 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 he 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 snffi.
cient it will remove an important COM
mercial consideration, meaning a los 8
of more than $1,000, 900 dollars worth
Of meat annually"
Whalen recommended recently that
the city sllow the sale of meat from
"lump jaw" cattle, provided the in.
fecsed portions are cut out.
It may be true Sthat Ezrope gets
tha first choice of the beef aud Amer
lea the second, and Chicago the re-
fuse. If so. it is the fault of che gov
ernmenG 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 suir the radica ~
Chicago, June l.-Dr. 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 pound of
tainted meat escapes into the local
market"
"I never saw anything like the
frenzy displayed ,over this question, !"
ne said "Men who never saw the in
terror OF packing house are learnedIy
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 years ago.
"Just as soon as tine tagser' puts
the Suspicious tag on carcass lit is
hauled off to the governm ent'siroom
and locked in there's No Que has the
key to the room except the govern
ment. By and BY che inspector. who
ispa trained veterinary, comes around
and examines the smeat.
aiIf his Judgement eorroborates the
verdics sf the fsagser,' then the ami
NAL is dumped forthwith into the
'renk' and converted into fertilizer.
The packer gets nothing from that an.
imal except the hiss, hoofs, horns and
the fertilizer. -''
"For anyone to assert condemned
meat escapes into the local Market Or
into any ,:other market. IL tie veriest
nonsense. > up -+irsffs = 81
"A dispatch to The Tribune from
Sioux City; Ia. says.' -s
The statement that stockmen Of the
Central Wese oppose the bill now be-
fore Coigssas extending government
insepecti6n over domestic and export
meats OH the ground that q more rigid
inspection law Ewouid mean great
| loss to to the casstlenen. Is rspndiatsf by
j. J. Ryan, Of Fort Dodge, La. secre-
tary OF the Corn Belt Meat Producers
association, ! and Murdo Mackenzie.
presidsat Of the American National
Stock Urowerd' Association. tsi
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