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The Meat Packaging Plants In The 21st Century
Meat packing plant are completely different than what Upton Sinclair described it in the novel. The meat packaging plants in the 21st century is must cleaner than novel interprets it because we have rules and regulations to protect people from getting sick. The meat packaging plant where dirty, putting things it the meat that were not food, and the plants were unsanitary. Let's examine how they were.
First, what is the good of laws without fair and equitable enforcement? This means why do they have the laws for the plant and they're not pushing it on them to use it. What I think happened was they put out the rules but the people didn’t follow them. They sugar coated how the really plant was. Once Theodore Roosevelt found out how the conditions
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