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OAH Magazine of History
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Teaching Strategy Making Meat: Efficiency and Exploitation in Progressive Era ChicagoThomas G. AndrewsThis document is meant to accompany the Teaching Strategy, "Making Meat: Efficiency and Exploitation in Progressive Era Chicago" by Thomas G. Andrews, which appeared in the OAH Magazine of History 24 (January 2010). Document One Richard B. Grantham, Treatise on Public Slaughter-Houses (London: J. & H. Cox, 1848), 79. [T]he blood and other animal matter thus rejected would, if produced in a proper locality, contribute materially to the income of the butcher, while it furnished increased fertility to the land, and consequently would contribute to cheapen food, the basis of national prosperity. This economy might be effected in a well-organised establishment without nuisance, and yet without adding to the contaminations of our already deadly sewers |
