The publication of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair in 1906 was instrumental in getting the members of Congress to-
•enact stronger anti-trust laws
• support conservation of public lands
• establish a system of meat inspection
•legalize strikes by labor unions

Establish a system of meat inspection.

They could get by with putting whatever they wanted in their food and no one would check it so enabling meat inspections would help them not get over on that.

i confess that there are several parts of this constitution which i do not at present approve, but i am not sure i shall never approve them: for having lived long, i have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which i once thought right, but found to be otherwise. it is therefore that the older i grow, the more apt i am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others.

answer: born in saint-dié, in the vosges department, france, he studied law, and was called to the bar at paris in 1854,[2] but soon went into politics, contributing to various newspapers, particularly to le temps. he attacked the second french empire with great violence, directing his opposition especially against baron haussmann, prefect of the seine department. a series of his articles in le temps was later republished as the fantastic tales of haussmannlaxupa (1868).[2]

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