Upton's Sinclair's The Jungle was a novel based on one employee who worked for a Chicago's meat-packing factory. This detailed novel described horrendous conditions and gruesome visions of contaminated meat. This brought forth significant changes within the meat-packing industry. America's business of canned meat was declining within the country as well as the world. Lack of trust and controversy surrounding the meat-industry caused President Roosevelt and Congress to take initiative of the situation. This began …showed first 75 words of 1925 total…

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