Whenever I drive up to Fort Collins from Denver, I seem to pass dozens of Swift & Company trucks heading up to Greeley, Colorado, where their meat-packing plant is headquartered. Swift & Company was for many years a Chicago institution, founded by Gustavus Swift, who once famously bragged that the company used every part of the pig except the squeal. It was abuses at the Chicago Stockyards by firms such as Swift that lead Upton Sinclair to write his expose novel "The Jungle," which shocked and sickened America and lead to the Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906. Hopefully that isn't one of the regulations Donald Trump plans to repeal, but you never know.
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