Charges against Chicago Packers.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXII, Issue 3881, 1 June 1906, Page 3

Charges against Chicago Packers.

STARTLING REVELATIONS

New York, May 29.

Grave charges are made against Chicago packers, It is asserted that they have been using chemicals on diseased meat, thus selling to Americans unwholesome food which they were unable to export. Details are published by the newspapers and names given. More excitement is manifested by the public in this matter than over any other scandal for years. May 80. In connection with the charges against Chicago packers of using chemicals and diseased meat, and selling to Americans unwholsßome food, which they were unable to export, it is alleged that bogs dying of cholera were converted into lard and grease for sardine oil. Putrefied hams were chemically rendered odourless, bad meat was dyed, and potted ham made from mouldy beef. Further, it is stated that cattle dying of diseases were converted into tinned beef, and sausages made from floor scrapings. When operatives were mutilated the machinery w r as not stopped, and the lumps of human flesh were allowed to be mixed with the canned food and sausages. The revelations made in Mr Upton Sinclair’s novel “The Jungle ” have induced President Roosevelt to send commissioners to investigate Chicago methods. Their report which is to form the basis of legislation is to be immediately submitted. DISGUSTING DETAILS. New York, May 30. America is appalled at the Chicago Meat Works revelations. The Beef Trust is panic-stricken. British, German and Japanese orders are already decreasing. Mr Upton Sinclair (whose book “ The Jungle” inflated the declares that two men fell into the lardrendering vats and were converted and sold as lard. Unborn calves are largely utilised in potted meats. Decomposed chickens were frozen, deodorised, and tinned. Mr Sinclair challenges an action for libel.