Show to PROTECT PEOPLE Of UTAH 1 f fROM EATING DISEASED MEATS 1 Diseased d meat is being sold by some 4 ef th the meat markets of Salt Lake Ci City y yand and id 1 is also served at some orne hotels and v.-v-eap v. cheap che restaurants of the tho city according tj John t to- to John Peterson eterson state dairy and food commissioner fc Mr P Peterson terson reluctantly admits his inability successfully to to cope pope with ith a situation that tho law has placed be be- l him but has his own ideas on how I the trouble can be bo remedied Aside Abide from all nU the other duties of his office such as looking lookin after the food products manufactured and sold old inthe tin i the state the dairy products turned I tout out and other matters maters of at a a alike like nature he be i falso told to see fiCO that all aU the moat products sold for consumption are just I what the they ought to be To make this part of the law effective at all he is iR called led upon to o visit bit all the stores store I but botcher batcher her shops restaurants hotels state tato slaughter bou houses os etc tc throughout bout the tho E e n nse Money Out Cut f On the tho face of it this seems to him ta bo a practical impossibility for any any I iVone one man to todo do and besides his own sat sal sly aly Mr Isar Peterson is IS allowed only 50 a year Mr for office expenses which in in in- eludes his railroad fares office supe sup sup- e plies stationery and telephone bills and help that he mi might ht need This ThiR is a a. month which would be more than eaten up by tho hiring of one ono good deputy It is is' is pointed out that in Idaho for instance there thero are ro twelve deputy inspectors ins in s besides the commissioner and that state appropriates annually annual ly f for r the he support of this branch of its endeavors ors I Th There re are arc four government meat ins inspectors inspectors' in 8 in in Utah two stationed at Os Ogden Og- Og I den and two in this city According to I Mr r. r Peterson thc they are doin doing good work rk as r far as 85 their duties permit The They bow hom however homer ever er inspect ct only cattle intended for interstate shipments shipment nt having iu nothing noth noth- in ing to do dt with cattle e raised railed killed ands and s sold o d within tb the a State tale Where Meat oat Is Killed Billed f t There Thero are thus twelve twel slaughter slaughterhouses slaughterhouses houses in S Salt lt Lake Lako county alone ll no which h esca escape o government ov inspection ti n entirely Con Conditions in sonic of them says ays the inspector almost rival al those e narrated by Upton Sinclair in The Jungle l It is 18 tho the sam same in this case as it is with tb the inability inability- of the tM dairy and food commissioner to regulate the dairy products of tho state He may take a copy of rules Hiles and rt regulations and go seo around to the elau slaughter houses andreu thom them till he is blue inthe face and thon then nail them up on the wall for every one to look at It But Brit if any ony one one- refuses refuse to listen to his declamatory efforts efforts ef ef- ef forts or never takes the trouble to read the regulations regulations' where they stand out in ill boldin bold letters on th the wall there is no noy no noway way wy y in which which- to punish an n offender How Such Business Pays It was only last year the tho owner own own- er of s several everal l d diseased bo hogs bogs drove tl them m to this city says the c commissioner 44 and nd disposed sed of f them in in tho night in spite of of the tho fact that th thy they y t were ro literally literally liter liter- ally falling faltin to pieces E Some come me of th their r ears cars had fallen off 3 as a result of disease disease dis dis- ease and tho the bones legs of their legs s show sho showed shod d 1 where hero the meat had hid fallen off The ease case was such a flagrant f rant violation that the man 1 n was arrested but soon Boon gained I Ibis his bis freedom a again ain by pa i paying 1 a a- a fine H Of Of c course course urs most of oi t the be meat dealers hotel proprietors and re restaurant keepers keep keep- ers ors will refuse to buy bu diseased led meat if they know what they aro are getting gettin But there are some flome who aro unscrupulous enough b to do it and when n the neat meat is offered to them at very ery low prices the temptation n bet becomes mes too great for jor them Cholera in ln Hogs I HI h have havo o o come across cases whore hore hogs affected with the cholera have have havo been sold for 1 each cacho It has bas cometo como come comoto comoto I to tho the point wb Where re tho the owners owners o of cattle cat cat- tle as soon as a they thc detect the tUc presence of f lumpy jaw or black le leg or or similar diseases imong among their stock kill the tho animals immediately and anel turn them thom over to the public to eat oat as good meat In the earlier r stages of the disease it is ismore ismore ismore more difficult to detect its presence and it is therefore so much easier to get ct rid of it Wants Local Inspectors Mr Peterson would go so ahead and put the tho meat industry of the thc state under un un- under der a similar s system of espionage that he would to the tho dairy int inter inter- r- r ests esta Ho He would would bade ha inspectors rs appointed locally b by municipalities where th there thoro re are aru slaughter hou houses ses and then have havethe the inspectors paid on a n. basis of the number of animals animal killed under his MI- MI It would n not t be burdensome burdensome burden burden- some Bome for tho the slaughter daughter ht r houses bouses to notify the inspector tor when thoy they intended to do their killing especially at t small plants Thus anI only a part of at the tho inspectors inspector's s time would be taken up leavin leaving him time timo to attend to other duties Mr P Peterson would have havo the these e inspector inspectors in in- sp examine every animal before and after aCtor killing thus practically eliminating the possibility of at any nm diseased dis die e eased 5 d treat meat mea t getting abroad This he be claims is the only way to r remedy present pros pres ent ant conditions To 10 enforce the law lawhe he would issue licenses li licenses li- li c censes to slaughter houses and then if there tuero were any violations the licenses wo would ld b be r revoked and p permission rini ion to continue in bUl business refused fed The revenue rev ro onue taken in from the licenses Ji would in itself pay for the tho hiring of the inspectors inspectors in thus thos brin bringing ins about a great reat improvement without bu burdening the state with any aDY any expense |