The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1919-07-11
PRICE OF MEATS MOST
UNJUST DECLARE THE
EXPERTS
SOMEBODY rs MAKING HUGEsT
KIND OF PROFITS
Such l. the Intimation Of the United
States Department Of Agriculture.
Which Has Lately Made the Most
Exhaustive Examination and Study
Of This Big Subject.

WASHINGTON. Z. g.. July D.
Federal supervision oi thr packing.
sale and distribution oi meat pro.
duet, b. declared hy Do, department
of agriculture io bo the only solution
Tor The present situation 900 which
meat prices to the consumer are go
high that hc i, DENYING himself and boz
which prices for live stock. p.porIall,
beef and lambs. ARE -u low that the
producer .. losing money. The dr.
pnrimrni emphasizes that ".ayc
food ' signs should now boz disregard
cd as to meat. especially beet and
wheat products Faced by the largest
'-'h"s' crop on record and with many
cattle raised ~ response tu the de-.
mand for meat production Tor the
army now maturing. the American
people, the department asserts, must
realize that M necessity for runser.
walton 1T such foods any longer pV-
lists. 4 survey 1T the meat price
situation reveals that the excessive
retail prices now existing are not
Justified by Wholesale quotations.
Prices ~ the producers have declined
since the war. but prices paid by the
consumer have nAmntcriully lessen
ed. The only solution. the depart
mcnt believes, a. more strict federal
supervision. The entire meat situn
ton, based un conferences with scnA
tors and representative from live
stock producing regions, b. summarize
eel by the department thus
There b. no longer need for meat
conservation. Tho supply Is plcnii
tul, and patriotic citizens may freely
disregard the meat saving placnrds
which arr still displayed NJ many eat
ing places Europe needs our surplus
pork, but is filling iis beef require
mcnis by imporintions frpm South
America and Australia. Prices of
beef cattle have fallen sharply since
March lsi on account of the stnppagc
of exports for army use and slack
demand for beef ut home. due IN the
continuation 1T beef conservation un
der the mistaken idea that such con
scryaiion ~ still necessary to feed the
people of Europe Beef producers
and lamb producers who sell their
products nj this time are confronted
with the danger of heavy financial
LOSSES which would tend 10 restrict
production aud cause "a serious short
ago in future.
THE United States will never have
a satisfactory and permanent .uu
ton of the problem until the manu-
iacturc and sale aud distribution of
meat products arr officially super.
viscd by authorized agents uf the
government, working m cooperation
with state and municipal authorities.
whose only aim ~ 10 serve the pco-
pie at large aud not amy particular
class. When the federal g,aernmeni
~ enabled by Law 10 maintain lust
supervision over The meat producing
industry that will prevent unfair deal.
lngs, speculation and pruiiterring, by
furnishing the public from an umm
peachnble source all the facts with
regard Ia the industry
"Whcn the states and muniripuli
ties are enabled las law a. cNerrise
similar supervision over iulrasiatc
and local business, then uuly can We
expect io have fair and stable mar
kcts IA which producer and consumer
alike Will have square deal.