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“The conditions shown by even this short inspection to exist in the Chicago stock yards are revolting”

In this cover letter to the Neill-Reynolds report, President Theodore Roosevelt urged Congress to immediately enact legislation to provide for meat inspection and establish sanitary conditions for the meatpacking industry.  Three months earlier author & journalist Upton Sinclair had written to Roosevelt, detailing many of the industry’s practices.

Message from President Theodore Roosevelt to the House of Representatives and the Senate, 06/04/1906

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