{"id":356,"date":"2011-01-17T01:00:24","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T06:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/?p=356"},"modified":"2023-07-07T16:29:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T16:29:19","slug":"1871","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/2011\/01\/17\/1871\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 11 – 1871: Report on the Sale of Bad Meat in Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published: Boston, 1871<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>After \u201ca portion of a diseased animal was sold at Faneuil Hall Market\u201d in 1871, resulting in the death of a local butcher, more than a few Bostonians were outraged. \u00a0The city promptly undertook this official investigation, which focuses on the deplorable conditions under which cattle were transported and killed.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnder the most favorable circumstances,\u201d the report reads, \u201cthey leave the train panting, fevered, and unfit to kill; under the least favorable, a regular percentage of dead animals is hauled out of the cars.\u201d\u00a0 Perhaps it comes as no surprise to us today as we look back 140 years, but the report suggests that nearly all of these animals, sick and dying as they were, nonetheless eventually made it to market.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This particular copy comes from the library of George T. Angell (1823-1909). An accomplished Boston lawyer, Angell founded the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. New England\u2019s largest small-animal hospital, Angell Memorial, in Boston, is named in his honor. Angell has underscored numerous passages throughout the text, and has even outlined an argument, as he writes it, \u201cto prove bad meat injurious to health.\u201d\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Published: Boston, 1871 After \u201ca portion of a diseased animal was sold at Faneuil Hall Market\u201d in 1871, resulting in the death of a local butcher, more than a few Bostonians were outraged. \u00a0The city promptly undertook this official investigation, which focuses on the deplorable conditions under which cattle were transported and killed. \u201cUnder the most favorable circumstances,\u201d the report reads, \u201cthey leave the train panting, fevered, and unfit to kill; under the least favorable, a regular percentage of dead animals is hauled out of the cars.\u201d\u00a0 Perhaps it comes as no surprise to us today as we look back […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":false,"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4197,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions\/4197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}