The Role Of The Meat Industry In France

France has always believed that it is a superior nation. The people have always thought the have the superior taste in food, culture, and people. That citizens of France value tradition more than anything else. The state however has little regard for tradition, they believe it’s in the states best interest to preserve the economy and keep the people safe. The state cannot change the culture of Fance without getting a violen recation from the public. In the late 18th and early 19th century we see the government take action that would alter tradition but keep the state alive in doing so. The state is very cautions and doesn’t take any big leaps that would cause the people to over react. Specifically in the meat industry we see government intervention that would regulate how meat is processed and sold. …show more content…
It was the most famous slaughterhouse on the continent. The La Villette was always booming with business because they offered what other countries didn’t fresh meat. The French people like it because it had a pure taste; refrigerated meat was commonly called by the French as “dead meat.” Machinery had been invented already that would have yielded more profits in a year, but as I said before the French liked their ways. Edouard Herriot visited Chicago after World War 1 and wrote that to Americans, “Time is money” but to the French people “time is time”. As we see the French valued buying meat that was slaughter that