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themselves, they yet fall iar short of an ample law effectively 
administered. If this can be said of Germany, still more may 
be asserted of other nations. 
The prime obstacle to effective meat and milk inspection 
has ever been and will continue to be the irrepressible and 
unavoidable conflict between the mercenary interests of the 
seller and the sanitary interests of the consumer, and upon a 
scientific and practical adjustment of these interests must 
meat inspection rest if it is to succeed. 
In essentially all respects the interests of the producer and 
consumer are identical under a judicious meat inspection, and 
it is rather due to unscientific and irrational laws and actions 
that these interests are usually brought into violent conflict. 
Nutritious meat which is wholesome, or which can be readily 
rendered healthful, is as much, nay more, of a loss to the 
poor laborer than to the wealthy stock breeder or meat 
dealer, for while each carcass excluded from the market serves 
to increase the profits on those remaining to the seller, they 
inversely render the procuring of a suitable quantity and 
quality of meat more difficult for the poor. 
Bollinger has well observed, “ Were statistics available as 
to how many persons have died from insufficient nutrition, 
especially from the want of sufficient nutritive meat, we would 
find a much larger percentage than from the use of the flesh 
of diseased animals for food.” We are thus reminded by this 
very eminent authority that we should, for humane and na¬ 
tional economic reasons, be exceedingly careful to not exclude 
meats which are or can readily be rendered highly suitable 
for human food. 
We have already stated that meat inspection should be 
made primarily in the interests of the proposed consumers of 
such meats. 
When a Jewish rabbi, either personally or through a duly 
authorized party, inspected the meat for a particular tribe or 
clan, and carefully guarded the interests from a sanitary 
standpoint of his own tribe and kinsfolks, his work was c- 
complished, and the matter concerned only the immediate 
tribe. 
