INFLATION OF VEAL AND LAMB.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14985, 4 June 1914, Page 13

INFLATION OF VEAL AND LAMB.

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LONDON. April Carcase., of two lamb, hanging ou .the wall, and a bulky joint of .veal displayed on a tab.o, cpive-'an unusual -appearance to 0:10 of tho com_n.ittc--rooms of the House of Coninioru-.. Th 5 explanation was to be found iv tho nature of the Bill under 'consideration. The ' Birmingham Corporation in an "omnibus" motisure, sought power to prohibit tho blowing or inflating of carcase, of animals killed for human cor.umption. and the committee considered this c'.ar.De apart from tho remainder of tho Bili.

Mr Freeman, K.O. for the promoter., paid tho bodies., of calves and lambs which had beeu-slauentered'when thry were only three or fortr days old wero inflated to give the carcases the appearance of animals whi ,h were two o» 1-hreo weeks-old, and to make tho meat look moro attractive. In. Holland .t was permitted only in the case of carcases to be esporterl to this country Inflation generally was by means of an air-pump, but conic slaiizhtennen mado a holo in the hides and inflated the meat by blowing by tho human month. On behalf of the National Federation of Meat Traders. Mr Lindsay stated that 90 or 95 per cent, of the veal and lamb offered for sale in the Londoi marko. was inflated. The trado prepared to support legislation forbid, ding inflation by tho mouth,, but contended that tho other method was unobjectionable.