MEAT SCANDAL.
By, telegraph, Paes* A'm’h, Copyright LandoD, May 29.
The revelations in Mr JJpton Sinclair’s novel, 11 The Jangle,” induced President RocEevelt to send commissioners to invest'g ite Chiosgo methods. Their report will form the basis of legislation to be immediately submitted. Newspaper details show that bogs dying of cholera bave been converted into lard and grease into sardine oil. Putrefied hams were chemically rendered odorless. Bad meat was dyed, and potted ham made from mouldy beef. Cattle dyiog of disease were converted into tinned beef. Sausages were made from floor eorapings. When operatives were mutilated the machinery was not stopped, but lump 3 of human flesh were Ulised with caunod food aud sausages, I
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1762, 31 May 1906, Page 2
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116MEAT SCANDAL. Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1762, 31 May 1906, Page 2
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