Federal Meat Inspection Act
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The Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906 is a U.S. law that makes it illegal to adulterate or misbrand meat and meat products being sold as food, and ensures that meat and meat products are slaughtered
James Bronson Reynolds, 1907
The Jungle
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The Jungle is a novel by American author and journalist Upton Sinclair. In 1904, Sinclair spent seven weeks gathering information in the meat packing district of the Union Stock Yards in Chicago for t
Federal Meat Inspection Act
…introduced but it was later removed in the House bill that was passed and became law. The law was partly a response to the publication of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, an exposé of the Chicago meat packing industry, as well as to other Progressive Era muckraking publications of the day. While Sinclair's dramatized…
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A panorama of the beef industry in 1900 by a Chicago-based photographer
Men walking on wooden rails between cattle pens in the Chicago stockyard, 1909
Chicago meat inspectors in early 1906