Gateway to Innovation

“We followed a few years after Mr. Swift. We had to learn the methods of dressed beef and experiment. The methods have been gradually growing. We have perfected them year by year, learning something every year as to how to do the business better.” P.D. Armour, 1889 “... all along this east side of the yards ran the railroad tracks, into which the cars were run, loaded with cattle. ‘And what will become of these creatures?’ cried Teta Elzbieta. ‘By tonight,’ Jokubas answered, ‘they will all be killed and cut up; and over there on the other side of the packing houses are more railroad tracks where the cars come to take them away.’” Upton Sinclair, 1906