Talk:Meat Inspection Act
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You attribute the passage of the Meat Inspection Act to the publication of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. Both these events occurred in 1906--doesn't that seem a little quick for a legislative response to a novel? And, also according to your site, there were several earlier Meat Inspection Acts. This "Upton Sinclair wrote the Jungle so they passed the Meat Inspection Act" statement is just the kind of unexamined thing that gets carried from one secondary source to another like a computer virus. Why don't you take another look at it.
- I was told this by a university professor who had spent his entire career studying The Jungle and the Chicago meat packing industy, so I am willing to believe the connection is factual. - SimonP 16:06, Aug 4, 2003 (UTC)
- Excuse me, but why don't you correct it? What is stopping you? Obviously you have already talked to an authority on the subject. I agree that something does not seem quite right here. --KF 16:22, 4 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- I'm sorry, SimonP, my answer is to 128.59.85.75. As your text is not indented and the first one not signed, I thought you had written both of the above paragraphs. --KF 16:31, 4 Aug 2003 (UTC)