The Kitchen Cartel: Pure Food & Drug Act 1906
Conflicted: A History Podcast
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The Jungle
Upton sinclair wrote a novel about working in the chicago meat packing plant. Sinclair's critics claimed that there was not a shred of real factual evidence in this novel. Roosevelt sent his own team of investigators to ch Chicago, and they found it all true. Almost every single detail in saint clair's book could be corroborated. The food industry began to change away from swindling and towards the power of branding.
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