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Chapter 10. Purifying the Competition

Three campaigns waged in the name of public health. Patrick Newman covers the Beef Trust turning federal meat inspection into taxpayer-subsidized cartelization, the pure-food coalition in which sugar producers, straight-whiskey distillers, and a cream-of-tartar baking powder maker each sought to handicap a cheaper rival, and the American Medical Association’s drive to restrict the supply of doctors and suppress homeopathic and eclectic competitors.

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Three campaigns waged in the name of public health. Patrick Newman covers the Beef Trust turning federal meat inspection into taxpayer-subsidized cartelization, the pure-food coalition in which sugar producers, straight-whiskey distillers, and a cream-of-tartar baking powder maker each sought to handicap a cheaper rival, and the American Medical Association’s drive to restrict the supply of doctors and suppress homeopathic and eclectic competitors.