Meat Factories In Upton Sinclair's The Jungle

The Jungle written by Upton Sinclair was published in 1906. It exposed the meat factories and this novel alone, changed how the meats were handled and produced. Upton Sinclair exposed how terrible meat factories were. Instead of actually having a book full of fact to interest readers he made up a fictional story and to make it seem he was not targeting meat industries. Without the efforts of Sinclair, America would have slowly crumbled due to unsanitary meat and the diseases that it holds, and meat factories would eventually learn how to hide the horrid things they were putting in the meat if the unsanitary conditions were not caught so early.
Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore but raised in New York. As a child, he was very intelligent
Even though Juris travels, his destinations are written as minor and he is trying to get himself together throughout his time away from his family.. The family themselves is mostly in Packingtown throughout the novel."The Jungle exposed the processing of diseased, condemned livestock, the disgusting of malodorous meat with dyes and bleach and the grinding-up of sawdust and rat feces into sausage..."(Phelps). This quote can simply sum up with Sinclair did his work to expose the factories through this book. The book may not be directed towards meat industries but their horrid behavior did not go
He was hired by a newspaper to investigate the factories and help expose them. He posed as a worker. He also asked several different workers how they felt about what they were putting in the meat, better explained by ("The Jungle"-American decades Primary Sources). It would be boring hearing from someone that has never actually worked in the factories. That’s why his experiences and the way he felt was to pure and true in describing the conditions of the factors. Most of the people besides the bosses of the factories really made any decent kind of money, so the poor factory workers at the same time would not say anything about the situation. -"He saw workers fill vats with rats'…"("The Jungle"-American decades Primary Sources). It is amazing what they would do to the meat. Majority of people would not buy any kind of meat if a rat has been near it. That’s why this novel was a real eye opener for many Americans in this