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EmbraceLiberty posted on Sun, Jul 22 2012 8:23 PM

http://mises.org/freemarket_detail.aspx?control=96

Can I get the source of people telling the quartermasters to put the meat on ice?

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acft replied on Sun, Jul 22 2012 10:35 PM

I was expecting some laughs from this thread...

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Wheylous replied on Mon, Jul 23 2012 12:51 PM

My research on meatpacking:

http://wiki.mises.org/wiki/Meat_packing

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Wheylous replied on Mon, Jul 23 2012 12:57 PM

I'd like to get the source for the ice as well.

Furthremore, the source for

 When Sinclair visited the White House in 1906, the president remarked to him that the study contained nothing incriminating.

Anyway - as to the meat in Cuba - I've read other version that flat out denied the meat was diseased. I can't remember where, though. Maybe in the Triumph of Conservativism by Kolko. Check out a limited selection of pages here: http://books.google.com/books?id=jTyfQk1zMTYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=triumph+of+conservatism&hl=en&sa=X&ei=l5ANUPfKCrK00QHhw6mVBA&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=meat&f=false

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