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- United_States_Army_beef_scandal abstract "The United States Army beef scandal was a political scandal caused by the widespread issuance of extremely low-quality, heavily adulterated beef products to US soldiers fighting in the Spanish-American War. The contract for the meat was arranged hurriedly and at the lowest-possible price by Secretary of War Russell A. Alger from the Chicago "big three" meatpacking corporations, Morris & Co, Swift & Co, and Armour & Co. In the atmosphere of pre-regulation-era Chicago, the companies took advantage of Alger's inattention and favorable attitude to the industry (as well as the Army's immediate need for large amounts of cheap beef to provision the expeditionary forces) by further cutting corners and reducing quality on the (already heavily adulterated) product they shipped for the US contract. As a result, most of the meat arriving in Cuba was found to be so poorly preserved, chemically adulterated and/or spoiled that it was toxic and dangerous to consume. The meat caused an unrecorded number of illnesses and death from dysentery and food poisoning, having an especially deadly effect on the thousands already weakened by the epidemics of malaria and yellow fever which were ravaging the unprotected American troops and would eventually kill twice as many men as the bullets of the Spanish. Since yellow fever frequently causes symptoms similar to bacterial food poisoning (fever, vomiting, severe and/or bloody diarrhea), little connection was made at the time between illness and consumption of the Chicago beef.".
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- United_States_Army_beef_scandal subject Category:Spanish–American_War.
- United_States_Army_beef_scandal subject Category:United_States_military_scandals.
- United_States_Army_beef_scandal type Abstraction100002137.
- United_States_Army_beef_scandal type Act100030358.
- United_States_Army_beef_scandal type Event100029378.
- United_States_Army_beef_scandal type Gossip107223170.
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- United_States_Army_beef_scandal type Scandal107223811.
- United_States_Army_beef_scandal type SpeechAct107160883.
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- United_States_Army_beef_scandal comment "The United States Army beef scandal was a political scandal caused by the widespread issuance of extremely low-quality, heavily adulterated beef products to US soldiers fighting in the Spanish-American War. The contract for the meat was arranged hurriedly and at the lowest-possible price by Secretary of War Russell A. Alger from the Chicago "big three" meatpacking corporations, Morris & Co, Swift & Co, and Armour & Co.".
- United_States_Army_beef_scandal label "Scandale de la viande bovine dans l'armée des États-Unis".
- United_States_Army_beef_scandal label "United States Army beef scandal".
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- United_States_Army_beef_scandal sameAs Q3474978.
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