The Jungle, due to the federal legislation it provoked, became one of the most
impressionistic books of the twentieth century. Americans were horrified to learn about
the terrible sanitation under which their meat products were packed. They were even more
horrified to learn that the labels listing the ingredients in canned meat products were
blatant fabrications. The revelation that rotten and diseased meat was sold without a single
consideration for public health infuriated American citizens. They consumed meat
containing the ground remains of poisoned rats and sometimes unfortunate workers who
fell into the machinery for grinding meat and producing lard. Within months of The
Jungle's publication, the sale of meat products dropped dramatically. The public outcry of
indignation led to the passage of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act.
However, Sinclair did not write The Jungle to incite the American government
into regulating the sanitation of the meat......

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Title: The Jungle
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