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Bad Meat

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Parent Issue
Day
18
Month
December
Year
1890
Copyright
Public Domain
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Editor Register: It is said that most of the fresh meat sold in our markets comes from Chicago. Doubt aa to the safety of such meat was Btrong enough two years ago to induce an effort to get a law in this state subjecting meat from outside to state inspection. The bilt, throughathin mystery, failedto become a law. Recent developments at Chicago seem to emphasizs the need of some protection, neither the municipal nor the state authorities there preventing the slaughter of diseased cattle and the lale of their ñeth for food. Forty-two lumpy-jawed cattle were slaughtered at Nelson Morris' packing house the first Sunday in this month. The authorities know it, as they have known other similar cases, but did not prevent it, and nobody is prosecuted. Mr. Morris buys more cattle, his partner Mr. Vogel says, than any other two men, and declines to talk about hij bad stock, as it may hurt the business. The diseased meat cannot be distinguished fromgood meat. According to the best authorities, the disease - actinomycosis, or lumpy jaw- is a hideous, fatal and contagious one, and is very reaJily in many ways communicated to man, and proves fatal. Are we exposed? What is our protection? I am not disposed to excite groundless suspicion, nor to play mum that millionairö butchers may profit by selling us bad meat, nor to contribute to Chicago's thrift, while that city and the state of IUinois are careless of the public health, nor to buy her diseased meat secondhand for fear she will plant her agents here to undersell and crush out our local dealere Our people have a right to know that cattle from all the great west in large numbers come to Chicago loaded with a loathsome disease, fatal to man as well as to beast, are slaughtered and sent out as good food with the connivance (to put it milüly) of the city authorities appointed ostensibly to prevent it. The worst that I have herein intimated has been proved as acts by the affidavits of men through whose hands the cattle and the meat have passed. When our people know the facts, they will protect themselvesiu some way.

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Ann Arbor Register