After 1750, the relationship between food and state was innovative. As animals settled in London for closer distance to shops and consumers, many conflicts arose. A great concern of exchange of diseases between human and animals emerged. In Hardy’s scholarship, Pioneers in the Victorian province: veterinarians, public health and urban animal economy, it presented various factors of improving public health. With the presence of veterinarians, and meat inspectors, they seek to control the diseases threatening to attack the immune system, leaving humans vulnerable and sickly.
Animals were part of daily life in the cities. There were dairy cattle for milk, horses for transportation, pigs, dogs, rabbits, pigeons for protein, and cattle, poultry and sheep for slaughterhouses and to the market. London had all these animals because of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. This acted as protection for the animals from violence which made some of them wander freely around …show more content…
Bacteriology, study of bacteria, dispelled the blindness of the animal diseases. Although, it was long known that animal products such as meat and milk could causes illness, it only pertained to the process of decomposition not the actual animal itself. Bacteriology discovered the specific agents that connected animal and humans diseases. This took a while to uncover because contaminated animal food was stealthily brought into consumption. Sick animals were treated with preservatives, which produced toxins that harmed the human system without any obvious change to the taste and texture of the product. Benjamin Richardson, public health campaigner, drew attention to these dangers which gave George Buchanan, Chief Medical Officer, the impetus to declare the system of inspection of animals before slaughter in
Animals were part of daily life in the cities. There were dairy cattle for milk, horses for transportation, pigs, dogs, rabbits, pigeons for protein, and cattle, poultry and sheep for slaughterhouses and to the market. London had all these animals because of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. This acted as protection for the animals from violence which made some of them wander freely around …show more content…
Bacteriology, study of bacteria, dispelled the blindness of the animal diseases. Although, it was long known that animal products such as meat and milk could causes illness, it only pertained to the process of decomposition not the actual animal itself. Bacteriology discovered the specific agents that connected animal and humans diseases. This took a while to uncover because contaminated animal food was stealthily brought into consumption. Sick animals were treated with preservatives, which produced toxins that harmed the human system without any obvious change to the taste and texture of the product. Benjamin Richardson, public health campaigner, drew attention to these dangers which gave George Buchanan, Chief Medical Officer, the impetus to declare the system of inspection of animals before slaughter in