The Grand Food Bargain

 Notes

vention, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)  5 , no.  5 :  41 – 45 ,
July 1 ,  01 , https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/ 5 /wr/mm 5  5 a 1 .htm.

Chapter 8

1. the American Southwest: “Zachary Taylor,” Miller Center, University

of Virginia, accessed January ,  01 , https://millercenter.org/president/taylor;
Holman Hamilton, Zachary Taylor, Soldier in the White House (Indianapolis,
IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1951 ).
. Old Rough and Ready was dead: Hamilton, Zachary Taylor, 3  7 – 93.
3. poisonous preservatives: Swann Harding, Two Blades of Grass: A His-
tory of Scientific Development in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (Norman,
OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1947 ), 313.
4. “embalmed meat”: Andrew Smith, Eating History: Thirty Turning
Points in the Making of American Cuisine (New York: Columbia University
Press,  009 ), 15 .
5. questionable additives were actually preservatives: Ibid., 1  0.
. The “Beef Trust”: Maureen Ogle, In Meat We Trust: An Unexpected
History of Carnivore America (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,  013 ),
 3 –  9.
7. press seized on germ theory: Ibid., 74.
. The agency in charge was: US Food and Drug Administration
(FDA), “Part I: The 190  Food and Drugs Act and Its Enforcement,” last
modified February 1 ,  01 , https://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/History/FOrgs
History/EvolvingPowers/ucm 054  19 .htm; Wallace Janssen, “The Story of the
Laws Behind the Labels,” FDA, last modified March 11 ,  014 , https://www
.fda.gov/AboutFDA/WhatWeDo/History/Overviews/ucm 05  044 .htm.
9. unfit for human food: Federal Meat Inspection Act (FMIA) of 190 ,
“An Act Making Appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the
Fiscal Year Ending June Thirtieth, Nineteen Hundred and Seven,” March 5 ,
190 , Legis Works, http://legisworks.org/congress/ 59 /session- 1 /publaw- 3 
.pdf.
10. companies off the hook: Marion Nestle, Safe Food: The Politics of Food
Safety (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press,  010 ), 53.
11. The agency in charge became: Food Safety and Inspection Service
(FSIS), “FSIS History,” USDA, last modified February  1 ,  01 , https://www
.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal/informational/aboutfsis/history.
1 . the disease would land on American shores: Kevin Walker et al.,
“Comparison of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Risk Factors in the