Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

A law is needed which will enable the inspectors of the general Government to inspect and supervise from the hoof to the can the preparation...

I urge the immediate enactment into law of provisions which will enable the Department of Agriculture adequately to inspect the meat and mea...

Let me repeat that under the present law there is practically no method of stopping these abuses if they should be discovered to exist.

Under existing law the National Government has no power to enforce inspection of the many forms of prepared meat food products.