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Ever Think of Munching Your Way
Through a Million Pounds of Pork?
The following clipping from
the Ottawa Journal concerns
Dr. Carman K. Hetherington
who attended Bluevale public
and Wingham high schools be-
fore attending veterinary col -
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BY RICHARD JACKSON
Heard just the other day
(better late than never) of the
strange saga of one of the un-
sung heroes of the Civil Service.
He's Dr. Carman K, Heth-
erington, Chief of the Meat In-
spection Branch of the Health
of Animals Division of the Ag-
riculture Department who
threatened to eat his way
straight through 1, 000, 000
pounds of pork to prove to the
Italians it was A -okay.
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Happened this way...
The Agricultural Stabiliza-
tion Board had sold 500 tons of
fresh frozen pork to Italian im-
porter Daniele Bellei, purcha-
ing agent for most of the butch-
er shops in Italy.
Refrigerated, the pork was
shipped out, one October day,
to Bologna.
There, Professor R.K. Altara,
then Chief Italian Government
Veterinarian, refused to allow
delivery of the frozen cargo.
Might have trichinosis, he
said,
Trichinosis does occur in
Canadian and American hogs,
and may be transferred through
fresh uncured meat to the hu-
man body.
It's a tiny grub, which when
it dies in the human muscle
tissue, calcifies, causing ex-
cruciating pain.
It can be fatal.
This was before the Agricul-
ture Department had its rela-
tively newly -discovered tri-
chinoscope, a magnifying de-
vice through which hog carcas-
ses can be closely examined
and trichinosis detected.
There are threee accepted
methods of killing the trichina
grub:
1. Heat the hog carcass to
137 degrees Fahrenheit for 15
minutes.
2. Cold store it for three
weeks at five below zero.
3. Or cure it in brine for
40 days.
Professor Altara said he
couldn't be sure which, if any
of these steps had been taken.
And until he could be cer-
tain he just wasn't letting in
the shipment.
Of course, obviously the
pork was frozen, stored in the
refrigerated hold of the cargo
ship that had brought it from
Canada - but had it been at
five below zero, and for the
three required weeks?
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For five months, from Oc-
tober through February they
haggled about it, the Agricul-
tural Stabilization Board, Pro-
fessor Altara, Italian Govern-
ment health officials and im-
porter Bellei, while the ship
rode at anchor in the harbor at
Bologna.
Then in desperation, Mr.
Bellei shot off a cable to the
Agriculture Department and a
bank draft for $1,100 to the Ot-
tawa office of KLM, the Royal
Dutch Airlines, requesting that
a recognized and respected au-
thority of standing on the
health of animals and diseases
of meat fly over to Rome and
try breaking the impasse.
Dr. Hetherington made the
flight, accompanied all the way
from Montreal to Amsterdam to
Rome by an executive of KLM
who whisked him through cus-
toms and immigration nonstop.
In Rome he gathered up Pro-
fessor Altara, the It al i a n
Health and Agricultural brass
and of course, Importer Bellei,
and away they went to Bologna,
dockside, and into the pork -
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packed hold of the freighter
which by this time must have
begun sprouting barnacles on
her bottom,
"Cut a slice, any slice, from
any carcass anywhere in th e
ship," he invited them, "and
I'll eat it for you."
They did
And he did.
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"Cut another slice," he in-
structed them," and another and
and another and another - and
1'11 eat those too until you're
satisfied."
And he did.
But they still weren't entire-
ly convinced, although he told
them and by this time they
probably were quite prepared to
believe him - that he'd eat his
way through the whole 1, 000,-
000 pounds if he had to.
Anyway, stuffed with good,
sweetly clean Canadian pork he
flew home.
And then a month later,
March, they cabled Ottawa -
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"You are parked in front of
my driveway. I look forward
to being of service to you soon:'
This was a note written by a
British undertaker, and pinned
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Dr. Hetherington had told them
that the pork was safe for hu-
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