Question

Which of the following was a common practice in the Packingtown factories?

Answer 1

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Read "The Jungle" (1906), by Upton Sinclair.

Which of the following was a common practice in the Packingtown factories?

A. making Sausages with pickles in them

B . combining spoiled meat with other meat and then selling  it

C. eating arw leftover meat after a day's work

D. White Coisin  elving all of the spoiled meat to Jonas

Answer: B . combining spoiled meat with other meat and then selling  it

Explanation:

Sinclair´s novel describes how spoiled meat was mixed with other meat, to disguise the rotten smell and appearance.

Because of this denounce of the corrupted practices in the Chicago meat industry, his muckraking novel became well-known and the public outrage forced the U.S. Pure Food and Drug Act to be passed to improve the conditions of the American slaughterhouses.