Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1907 — MEAT PRICES TOO HIGH. [ARTICLE]

MEAT PRICES TOO HIGH.

The present prices received by the oattle and hog growers do not justify by any manner of means the outrageous retail prices oharged for meats. With live hogs at only six cents per pound there is no justification for charging the consumer 25 cents per pound for ham or 20 to 25 cents per pound for baoon. The same may be said of beef, mutton and veal. No doubt the meat trust is largely responsible for the high prices of the “finished produot’’ and block meats in the cities, where it regulates both the price paid for the raw material and the dressed meats. There is altogether too muoh difference between what the grower receives and what the consumer has to pay.