Report on Chicago Packing Industry Conditions Urges Federal Action
President Theodore Roosevelt transmits a preliminary investigation by James Bronson Reynolds and Charles P Neill into Chicago stockyards and packing houses. The findings demand drastic federal inspection of meat and products in interstate or foreign commerce, with fees on slaughtered animals to fund enforcement. Roosevelt urges passage of the Beveridge amendment to expand inspection and sanitary controls.
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Senate
House of Representatives
James Bronson Reynolds
Charles P. Neill
Chicago
Congress
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Bureau of Animal Industry
Department of Agriculture
Bureau
Messrs. Reynolds and Neill
Messrs. Reynalds and Neill
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Jess Ag
Beveridge
Theodorh Roosevelt
White House
Germany
America
Secretary of Agriculture
United States
James Bronson Reynochas
P. Neill
Washington, DC
June
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Chicago Packing Houses Under Scrutiny Report
The report surveys conditions in Chicago stockyards packing houses and New York slaughterhouses. It details squalid yards, dark ill lit workrooms, wooden equipment, lax washing, absent lavatories, and dangerous employee conditions. It criticizes weak inspections and mislabeling of canned meat while urging stronger federal controls and more inspectors.
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Chicago
Jena
Theas Moore
United States
Chicago Stock Yards
Varlangs
Sean
Bass
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