"There would come all the way back from Europe old sausage that had been rejected, and that was moldy and white—it would be dosed with borax and glycerine, and dumped into the hoppers, and made over again for home consumption. There would be meat that had tumbled out on the floor, in the dirt and sawdust, where the workers had tramped and spit uncounted billions of consumption germs. There would be meat stored in great piles in rooms; and the water from leaky roofs would drip over it, and thousands of rats would race about on it." — Upton Sinclair, The Jungle (1906)
This passage most directly contributed to passage of the
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Hepburn Act regulating railroad rates
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Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914
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Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890
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Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act of 1906
Explanation
Public outrage at Sinclair's exposé directly pushed Theodore Roosevelt and Congress to enact the Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act in June 1906.