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Roosevelt urges drastic reform of Chicago stockyards inspections
President Roosevelt asks Congress to empower federal inspection of all meat and meat products from hoof to can. He cites revolting conditions in Chicago stockyards, calls for strict sanitation, and proposes a per-head inspection fee funded by slaughter costs. The commission’s preliminary report warns of inadequate law and funding, urging Senate amendment 29 to the 1907 Agriculture bill.
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Congress
Tribune
Senate
House of Representatives
James Bronson Reynolds
Charles P. Nell
Chicago
Bureau of Animal Industry
Department of Agriculture
Messrs. Reynolds
Neill
Messrs. Reynolds and Neill
Peveridge
Theodore Roosevelt
J. BR. Reynolds