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While Sinclair in describing the meat industry and its working conditions wanted to advance socialism, [4] the novel's most immediate impact was to provoke public outcry over passages exposing health issues and unsanitary practices in the American meat-packing industry during the early 20th century.
In 1906, Sinclair acquired particular fame for his muckraking novel, The Jungle, which exposed labor and sanitary conditions in the U.S. meatpacking industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act. [1]
In 1905, the BAI faced intense pressure to improve meat inspections after the publication of Upton Sinclair's book The Jungle. The ground breaking book exposed unsanitary conditions in the Chicago meat-packing industry which caused enormous public outrage.
Upton Sinclair published The Jungle in 1906, which revealed conditions in the meat packing industry in the United States and was a major factor in the establishment of the Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act. [28] Sinclair wrote the book with the intent of addressing unsafe working conditions in that industry, not food safety. [28]
The world's meat industry must adapt to the challenges posed by climate change and growing demand for plant-based alternatives or face ruin, according to a group of investors managing $20 trillion ...
The American Farm Bureau said last week that its members “support the goals of security and ensuring fair trade with our North American neighbors and China, but, unfortunately, we know from ...
In 1906, Upton Sinclair published The Jungle, a book which exposed the filthy conditions of Chicago slaughterhouses. Sinclair wrote the book while living in Chicago; he talked to workers and their families and his focus was the plight of the workers.
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