Though it is often believed that the meat reform began with the publication of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle in 1906, Kolko argues that it really began decades earlier. ... So though technically there were efforts made by companies to quality control their products, prior to Upton Sinclair's discovery, the laws were not taken seriously until after The Jungle was published. ... This progressive time period encourage the public to voice their opinion and fight for their rights to clean food and once President Roosevelt read Sinclair's The Jungle their fight got a lot easier. ...

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Upton Sinclair was best known for his novel, The Jungle, which he wrote in 1906. ... Directly after the publishing of The Jungle, the Pure Food and Drug Act established the Food and Drug Administration, which tested and approved drugs before they went on the market for consumers. ...

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Upton Sinclair arguably the most famous muckraker wrote a book titled The Jungle which showed the bad working conditions in meat factories. ... Upton Sinclair's book The Jungle was the most important part in passing these two acts. ...

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"We are in a period of clamor, of bewilderment, of an almost tremulous unrest. We are hastily revising all our social conceptions. We are hastily testing all our political ideas." This comment by Walter Weyl reflects the mammoth social and political changes that emerged during the turn of the pre...

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The Neill-Reynolds Report and Upton Sinclair's The Jungle gave insight about the disgusting conditions where meat was processed and diseases were picked up, which led Roosevelt to inspect of the industry and pass the Meat Inspection Act in 1906. ...

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