The very great objection to that is the possibility of confusion. We have State laws and we have city laws in the matter of constructions, and we have insurance laws that we have got to comply with….the construction of a building that might suit the Secretary of Agriculture would not suit those folks, and what might suit those folks might not suit the Secretary of Agriculture.
Thomas Wilson, spokesperson for the meatpacking industry, in a House hearing before the Agricultural committee. From Protecting America’s Health, p. 44.
Wednesday, June 6, 1906
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