This author exposed the horrors and truth about the meat-packing industry in The Jungle
Who is Upton Sinclair
This 1906 law required inspections of meat products.
What is the Meat Inspection Act
This rodent was often found in the meatpacking plants
What is a rat
The Jungle was published in what year
What is 1906
This President pushed for food safety laws after reading The Jungle
Who is Theodore Roosevelt
Spoiled meat was sometimes masked with this chemical
What is borax or formaldehyde?
The public reacted more to this than the worker's struggles in The Jungle
What is the unsanitary conditions/meat contamination
The Meat Inspection Act applied to meat that crossed these lines
What are state lines (interstate commerce)
Workers sometimes fell into this and became part of the meat
What is a rendering vat