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Was meatpacking clean and safe

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

In the 1900's meatpacking was a huge problem. The workers were young overworked and underpaid. Kids as young as 3 would climb into huge machines and be forced to fix the dangerous and large machines. Meat was rotten and unsanitary, mice were a huge issue in the factories so the workers just added them to the meat grinders. people were getting sick and dying. One man Upton Sinclair, wrote a book the the dirty and disgusting details of meatpacking, The Jungle. Theodore Roosevelt (current president) read Upton Sinclair's book and was horrified so he proposed the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act and it got passed almost immediately.

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