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Dr. Clement: I wanted to get at the basis of your classifica¬ 
tion. I quite agree with you that cattle affected with tuberculo¬ 
sis in a small degree are not injurious as an article of food. 
Dr. Schwartzkopff: Excuse me; I should have said, of course, 
that the diseased parts are destroyed. 
Dr. Clement: It seems to me that a little too much stress may 
be laid upon some of the other diseases which render the animals 
unfit for food. I do not think it will do any harm, for instance, 
to eat pork from a pig which died of hog cholera, even though 
the animal was very sick. 
I would like to ask Dr. Schwartzkopff if diseased meat is sold 
in Germany, and so specified ? If from an economic standpoint 
they do not condemn the whole animal, but pass it as diseased, 
and sell it to the people, who know what they are buying and take 
their chances ? 
Dr. Schwartzkopff: Dr. Clement is right. There are laws in 
Southern Germany which provide for a classification of the meat. 
In the first place, perfectly sound meat for the market; then there 
will be given meat, for instance, from animals with the swine- 
plague, which are known not to injure human beings, but which, 
rather from feeling that such meat is not from perfectly sound 
animals, persons would rather not eat. Such meat is classified 
and sold cheap; not under a general law, but local ordinances of 
the municipality, from what you would call here aldermen. (Ap¬ 
plause.) These are simply ordinances which allow this meat to 
be sold to the poorer classes. In this country you will hardly 
like that very much. In America the citizen is a much stronger 
person than in most of the countries in Europe, with the possible 
exception, perhaps, of England. Here all classes of people want 
good sound meat and nothing else. It will take a long time in 
this country to establish such a law as it has taken a hundred 
years in Germany to bring about. 
Dr. Williams: The two diseases of antinomykosis and tuber¬ 
culosis are subjects of importance to us in Illinois. Dr. Clement 
has said it was impossible to condemn all these animals: Illinois 
has found it possible to condemn them, and has done it very suc¬ 
cessfully. We have some lively fights on hand on the subject of 
