The+Jungle







The Jungle was a novel written by Upton Sinclair. This novel explained and showed the horrifing meatpacking industries. Sinclair told in his book how dead rodents were shoveled into sausage machines and how bacteria filled flith and guts were raked off the floor and packaged as"potted ham".The working conditions were terrible. A few hundred citizens died each year due to bacterial infested meat. After realizing how bad the meatpacking industry was President Rosvelt sent two men to inspect and report back. After the disturbing details, the Preesindet took action by setting up federal inspection standards for meat.

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