Sinclairs exposé led directly to rapid passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act and People ate, and the deceptive practices used to sell such adulterated products. Portrayal of vermin, animal feces, human blood and body parts going into meat But what most shocked the popular conscience was Sinclairs Novel The Jungle exposed real-life conditions in meatpacking plants to a Meatpacking companies had equal contempt for public health. Hours, brutal treatment, and sometimes deadly exploitation of mostly immigrant The industry operated with low wages, long They were blood shops,Īnd not only for animal slaughter. Turn of the twentieth century were more than sweatshops. Nations large cities, especially in the Midwest, meatpacking plants at the We eat has always been bloody, hard and dangerous work.
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