Salt Lake Telegram | 1918-10-08 | Page 9 | Farmers May Sell Meat to City Dealers

FARMERS M SELL MEAT TO CWRS Commiation Kills Ordinance Ordi-nance Designed to Com-. Com-. pel Federal Inspection of All Meat Sold Here LOCAL retail butiheni will not have to pans their meat through a Hlaughterhouxe inspection, inspec-tion, the city (i mission ruled today. Ky a vote of 4 to 1 an ordlnanra requiring federal Inapar-tlon Inapar-tlon or all meat anld In tha city waa rejected. The ordinance waa designed to atop retail dealers from purchasing farm-killed meats. . It was set fortn ty tne butcnera mat the move was one to hurt their busl-j busl-j ness and detract from the trade of the ! farmer, addina; to the revenue of the large pack in companies and the slaughterhouses. Most of their meat, they said. Is purchased from farmers who depend upon them for support. Through the proposed method the prices t the consumer would mount, the butchers contended. Ir. Samuel O. Paul, city health commissioner, com-missioner, made a plea for the passage pas-sage of the ordinance, asserting that it would not mean a change in price, hut would be a safeguard for sanitary sani-tary conditions.