Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, Questions And Answers

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The Jungle, a novel by Upton Sinclair, resulted in the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. Sinclair made this change by writing about the disgusting environment inside the factories and the emotions the employees go through. The context in this novel caused an uproar that caused laws for regulations in factories in the United States. Sinclair described how the “skinned hams” were made out of the oldest hogs, which no one would buy. This deceived customers to think these were special, when in all actuality they would have never bought them if they knew what the “skinned hams” really were. Not only were the oldest hogs turned into “skinned ham” but into “head cheese”. Thus, the hogs were “chopped fine and labeled ‘head cheese’”. This makes the