American meat and its influence upon the public health / by Albert Leffingwell.

  • Leffingwell, Albert, 1845-1916.
Date:
1910
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: American meat and its influence upon the public health / by Albert Leffingwell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    continuance a bar to compensation received by other and more humane cattle-owners. The inexpediency of creating suspicion concerning an article of food of such general use, will undoubtedly be urged by the defenders of the Trust. We cannot deny the inconveniences which will be experienced by those who shall lose faith in everything that proceeds from American packing-houses. There may be some who would have preferred to remain in contented ignorance; it is probable, however, that the great majority of us prefer to know the facts. Are we not thus more certain, in the end, to attain reform of existing abuses than by a confidence that rests on untruth ? Is it possible that in the matter of food, anyone prefers to be deceived ?