Diseased Meat Sold as Food

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 30, 1888

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 14, No. 13.

Diseased Meat Sold as Food

A FEW days since an ex-pork-packer testified before the House Agricultural Committee, at Washington, that to his personal knowledge cholera-infected hogs are cut up and put upon the market as good meat. Carcasses of animals that have died from cholera and other causes, he says, are used in the manufacture of "pure steam lard" for family use. The custom of selling diseased meat he claims is quite common, and says that packers cannot deny it.