The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-03-14
WOMAN SANITARY
EXPERT ATTACKS
MEAT INSPECTION
THEIR OWN, WHICH COULDN'T
BE EXPORTED.

New York, March 14.-What she
called the real workings of the Blu
reau of Animal Industry, and what
she characterized as the secret orders
which accompany the Federal meat
inspection laws were attacked yester-
day by Caroline Bartlett Crane, the
sanitary expert and social worker of
Kalamazoo, Mich, who spoke in the
Berkeley Theatre, under the auspices
of the League for Political Education.
Mrs Crane, who has just completed a
sanitary survey of ffty-twO cities OF
the United States, in many Of which
she was made a temporary member
of the Health Department, made her
charges last spring before a Congress
Sional committee
Mrs. Crane declared that ''she had
stated under oath her belief that the
legend U. S. Inspected and Passed
was no guarantee that the meat so
stamped was as required under the
terms of the law, sound, healthful,
wholesome, and fit for human food -
The rules, of which she read extracts,
showed. she said. marked discrimina-
ton between product for foreign ship
ment and that for home use.
For foreign shipment, for example,
it is required that the Secretary of
Agriculture shsalI give a certificate
that the animal is free from disease.
But, according to Mrs. Crane, secret
orders, which local inspectors are
forced to obey, provide that if the rest
of an animal is At to eat, the part in
fected with tuberculosis germ, may be
cut out SuclV carcases do not go
abroad, but, so she declared, are off,
cially considered good enough for
home consumption.
Mrs Crane was inclined to laugh at
what she called New YorEz'e sausage
outburst."
of course" she said, "you are
cheated when you get other things
than sausage meat in a so-caIIed sau-
sage. But little added bread and
such things makes a comparatively
harmless nnixture-especially when
you realize that hogs shouts, sp1eens,
liver ears, stomachs. and other or
gans are specifically mentioned by the
Federal laws suitable for sausage
meat In China, which we are accus-
toned to look upon as SO unclean, the
ingredients Of which 7 have spoken
are not included. In China there are
allowed for export only such pigs as
are entirely free from traces OF any
gem disease
we talk much Of the need of a
ESder@1 health service. I think one
0e thS strongest arguments Is. that
thereby the meat inspection service of
0x country might be lifted out Of the
Bureau Of Animal Industry and the
Department OF Agriculture, and con-
hded to a n0n-oommercial and nom
=
the thing which we sought to gain for
ourselves in the meat inspection leg
islation following the exposures of
1906.
Our Federal meat inspection laws
are still q national calamity. The
heads OF divisions Of meat inspectors
and the heads OF many bureaus in big
cities who override the local inspec-
tors are largely responsible. 1t is my
experience that the local inspectors
who brand an article as unfit, are
again and again overruled by the man
higher up CONNER cialfsm is at the
root OF the matter, not only in meat,
but In all staples The days have
gone by when bread was baked in the
home for the sake of eating; it is now
baked in the factory for the sake on
selling. There is no more effort to
turn out the wholesome product your
mother used to make and so your
housewives leagues and similar or
gantzations have sprung up to remedy
conditions. Their services are much
needed.
1.-The secret orders Of which / spoke
authorize inspectors to out out mild
ulcers from Iumpy-1awed tongues, and
to cut out benign tumors, and pass
the affected organs. The delicacies
which remain are reserved for home
use So Americans eat not only their
own proportion of nvers and tongues
and other organs, from which the tu-
more have been cut, but they eat the
portion that is eliminated from all
the packers export trade"