A history of the frozen meat trade : an account of the development and present day methods of preparation, transport, and marketing of frozen and chilled meats / by James Troubridge Critchell and Joseph Raymond.

  • Critchell, James Troubridge, 1850-1917.
Date:
1912
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Credit: A history of the frozen meat trade : an account of the development and present day methods of preparation, transport, and marketing of frozen and chilled meats / by James Troubridge Critchell and Joseph Raymond. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A HISTORY OF THE FROZEN MEAT TRADE CHAPTER I Britain’s call for overseas supplies : shortage and SURPLUS It must be rather difficult for those who are engaged in the various branches of the great overseas frozen meat trade to reahze that only thirty years separate them from the time of the foundation of what is now recognized as one of the most important of the world’s industries. A commerce that unites continents, and is an essential factor in the progress of human civilization to-day, might well be believed to be more than a generation old, but it does not need a student of history to recall that this is not the case. The industry that hangs on the slender piston-rod of a refrigerating machine, yet feeds nations with a regularity that defies famine, had its birth within the recollection of many who are not yet old. The great changes it has wrought in the world during the first three decades of its existence make all the more interesting some preliminary inquiry into the circum- stances which led to its establishment. Before coming to the conditions which directly gave rise to and immediately preceded the refrigerated meat industry, it may be well to deal somewhat fully with two subjects not completely bearing upon the title of this book, though not by any means foreign to it, (1) the dwindling flocks and herds in