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Roosevelt era beef inquiry fuels push for national meat reforms
The piece discusses President Roosevelt’s private investigation into meatpacking led by Reynolds and Neill, with government funding but no salaries, stirring calls for strict inspection laws. It notes packers’ fears, public outrage over the Jungle era, and Sinclair’s proposal for municipal slaughterhouses to break packers’ power, plus mandatory postmortem inspection and stringent labeling and shipping rules beginning 1907.
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J. B. Reynolds
Charles P. Neill
United States
Congress
Beef Trust
Packers’ Trust
Roosevelt
Chicago
Europe
Secretary of Agriculture