National Packing Company

…public outrage was the “Beef Trust”—a collaborative group made up of the five largest meatpacking companies—and its base of packinghouses in Chicago’s Packingtown area. Journalists published pieces in radical and muckraking magazines detailing the monopolistic and exploitive practices of Beef Trust businesses as well as the unsanitary conditions of…

…Edward Morris, he formed the National Packing Company—the “Beef Trust”—a combination subsequently dissolved by the U.S. Supreme Court (1905).