ne by one they hooked up the hogs, and one by one with a swift stroke they slit their throats. In 1906, Sinclair wrote: "They had chains which they fastened about the leg of the nearest hog. In 2006, just as in 1906, neither farmed animals nor consumers are protected from the meat and slaughter industries. What is shocking today is how little conditions have changed. The novel was so shocking that it prompted a government investigation and the passage of the Federal Food and Drug Act. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle," the landmark book that exposed the horrific conditions of America’s meat-packing industry at the turn of the last century. A grim indictment that led to government regulations of the food industry, The Jungle is Sinclair's extraordinary contribution to literature and social reform. Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is a vivid portrait of life and death in a turn-of-the-century American meat-packing factory.
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