US Politics on Sidechat | Wasn’t this *exactly* what Upton Sinclair’s the jungle was about? We’ve known for a century (and longer looking at other historical records) that the food service industry has unscrupulous characters. And, if left unchecked, they dgaf about food quality.

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Wasn’t this *exactly* what Upton Sinclair’s the jungle was about? We’ve known for a century (and longer looking at other historical records) that the food service industry has unscrupulous characters. And, if left unchecked, they dgaf about food quality.

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Anonymous 11w

The jungle wasn’t a historical record. It was a fictional novel written by an activist. It was nowhere close to accurate.

Anonymous

#1 11w

I didn’t say it was, though I acknowledge that my useage of the word “other” in reference to historical records made it seem that way. I apologize for the lack of clarity.

Anonymous

OP 11w

But that isn’t to say that unsafe food handling conditions similar in severity those present in the jungle (though not industrialized before the 19th century) weren’t all that uncommon. There’s records in medieval times, for example, of punishments for unscrupulous vendors, and laws that were established to prevent documented effects of poor food handling. If laws regarding handling had to be established, that typically means that poor food handling had been a problem some point before.

Anonymous

#1 11w

Sinclair spent seven weeks gathering information in the meat packing district.