Reforms were happening all around in the early 1900’s. Some of these included the american food industry and labor laws, housing laws and poverty, women’s suffrage, and child labor. All of these at the time were very big issues in the United States and all of them needed resolutions. The American Food Industry was upon one of the reforms in the 1900’s. The American food industry mainly focused solely on the meat packing plant. Many historians claim that the meat packing plant was probably one of the worst places to work at the time. It was mainly considered bad due to the poor working conditions, dangerous machinery, and diseased animals were getting slaughtered. In order to get people’s attention about these issues Upton Sinclair wrote a