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a) Upton Sinclair exposed the horrific conditions of the meat industry in America during the early 1900s, which involved rat poison, rotten meat, and dead rats themselves being put into products such as sausage, and ground beef. Older beef was saved for weeks and then bleached to be sold as new. There are also reports by him that men fell into vats of boiling lard, and some of their remains were sold.

b) Roosevelt immediately responded, since he had already been suspicious of food quality in the US due to his experience in the Spanish-American war, where he had more members of his unit die from malnutrition than combat. He had Congress pass the Meat Inspection Act, requiring that companies be inspected for a series of codes and health violations.

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The Jungle nauseatingly detailed the meat-packing industry. Sickened, Roosevelt encouraged Congress to create FDA.

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