Food Preservatives: Their Advantages and Proper Use; The Practical Versus the Theoretical Side of the Pure Food Problem (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Robert Gibson Eccles

 
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After the literature of the condemned preservative had been fairly studied by the author, the outcome was one of profound Skepticism toward every Objection that had been urged against it. Not an iota of experimental evidence could at that time be found that Supported a single one Of the claims that had been urged against it. In every instance they based their opposition upon theories that were even then of very questionable validity, and which time and progress have since thoroughly discredited. A significant fact that was attached to the denunciation lay in the character of its origin. It started in a country whose people had but a short time before been badly vanquished on the battle-field, and where the rankling venom of political hatred was turned upon everything that had its origin among the conquering people. AS this preservative was a product imported from the country of the conquerors, it naturally came in for its Share of the general dis like. The indications seemed to point to the conclusion that polit ical passion had usurped the place of scientific dispassion in deal ing with it. NO good thing could come out of such a Nazareth seemed to be the burden Of their belief.

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