UNITED STATES MEAT INSPECTION. 
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enough for our own people. The condemned carcasses and 
parts of carcasses are now, and always have been, put in the 
fertilizer tanks and destroyed as an article of human food. 
We have not condemned carcasses on account of trichinae, it 
is true, as they have simply been withdrawn from the trade in 
the case of countries declining to receive pork without a micro¬ 
scopic inspection. The pork from packing houses, which is 
salted and cooked, has not proved very dangerous in this coun¬ 
try, and we have made no pretenses of guaranteeing trichinae- 
free pork to our consumers. 
The microscopic inspection even in Germany is a delusion, 
and does not protect from trichinosis as can be very easily shown. 
There has, consequently, been no special reason for enforcing 
the destruction of such carcasses in this country until a general 
microscopic inspection could be made. 
The trichinae inspection is, however, but an insignificant part 
of the meat inspection system of the United States ; it is the 
one and only part which we were led to undertake by German 
influence ; and it is the only part which can be assailed as being 
of a commercial nature and not protecting our own people 
equally with the foreign consumer. 
Butthe fact that there necessarily areweakpoints abouttrich- 
ina inspection, the one German idea in our system, does not justify 
in the least the sweeping assertion that the condemned car¬ 
casses found in our inspection are turned loose at our local 
markets. All the hogs as well as the cattle and sheep slaugh¬ 
tered for shipment to other States or foreign countries, are sub¬ 
jected to a rigid ante-mortem and post-mortem inspection, and 
all the carcasses found diseased and unfit for food on those in¬ 
spections, are condemned and destroyed. That is the incon¬ 
testable fact, and Dr. Schwarzkopf’s friends will all regret his 
attempt to obscure and misrepresent it. 
What does he mean by telling us in this connection that he 
has never seen so much poor meat in his life as in the Chicago 
butcher shops, and that he hopes to see the day when the 
United States inspection can be enforced all over the country to 
