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The Meatpacking Industry In The Jungle And Fast Food Industry

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In both excerpts from The Jungle and Fast Food Industry, the authors, Upton Sinclair and Eric Schlosser, attempt to expose corrupt businesses, specifically the meatpacking industry, and aim to uncover the unsanitary and inhuman conditions processed within this industry. Sinclair, in his novel, The Jungle, illustrates the horrifying conditions in the industry through Jonas’ description of rotting meat, as well as the conditions both the meat and workers went through. In his novel, Sinclair explains that the stored meat had “water from leaky roofs … drip over it, and thousands of rats would race about on it” (Sinclair, U. “Chapter 14” The Jungle, 1906). Through this vivid imagery, Sinclair explains the condition the meat is in, in order to acknowledge
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