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The original 1906 Act authorized the Secretary of Agriculture to inspect and condemn any meat product found unfit for human consumption. [1] Unlike previous laws ordering meat inspections, which were enforced to assure European nations from banning pork trade, this law was strongly motivated to protect the American diet.
The proposed rule was supported by the National Farmers Union and the U.S. Cattlemen's Association but opposed by the National Cattlemen's Beef Association and the National Chicken Council. [5] USDA estimated the rule would cost between $21.3 million to $72.1 million. [5] The American Meat Institute estimated the rule would cost $14 billion. [5]
An employee at Excel (a division of Cargill Meat Solutions) reported lifting bags of meat weighing up to forty pounds every three seconds, [1] while other accounts from meatpacking workers indicate that some jobs including flipping an entire hog. [2]
The William Davies Company facilities in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, circa 1920. This facility was then the third largest hog-packing plant in North America. The meat-packing industry (also spelled meatpacking industry or meat packing industry) handles the slaughtering, processing, packaging, and distribution of meat from animals such as cattle, pigs, sheep and other livestock.
Laws prior tends to focus strictly on the prohibition of selling food from compromised sources, like the selling of meat from diseased or rotting animal corpse. [5] The Jungle, a novel published by Upton Sinclair in 1905, described the horrible working conditions in the meat-packing industry.
(Reuters) -Livestock farmers in the U.S. would have a clearer path to bringing antitrust complaints against meatpacking companies for unfair business practices under a rule proposed by the U.S ...
The Wholesome Meat Act (also called "Equal To" law) is a United States federal law passed by the 90th United States Congressional session and enacted into law by United States President Lyndon B. Johnson on December 15, 1967, [1] amending the Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906 which established a statute for federal meat inspection programs. [2]
(Reuters) -Hormel Foods' labeling of a meat product line as "natural" despite using the same hogs and production methods as its other brands shows the U.S. meat labeling system needs reforms, said ...