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<blockquote data-quote="RidgeHunter" data-source="post: 1726857" data-attributes="member: 4319">Sinclair was gunning at it from the Commie angle with The Jungle, but it backfired on him. He was more worried about the workers than the nasty meat. The public was like &quot;eww it sounds like we&#039;re eating some nasty meat&quot; and totally ignored the worker angle. Roosevelt was like &quot;I think he&#039;s a Commie liar, but the public won&#039;t shut up about this people-lard business&quot; and so he sent his boys to the meat plants and they were all like &quot;yeah TR, I dunno about all that jive Sinclair wrote about, but it&#039;s p. nasty in here, brah.&quot; and Roosevelt was like &quot;well fawk me runnin&#039; &quot; and the Meat Inspection Act was passed.We&#039;re talking about the Triangle Shirtwaist time period, here. Somehow I&#039;m of the belief that yeah, they could use a bit of reining-in. Turn-of-the-century industry could be a bit like a villain from a Dickens novel sometimes.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RidgeHunter, post: 1726857, member: 4319"] Sinclair was gunning at it from the Commie angle with [I]The Jungle[/I], but it backfired on him. He was more worried about the workers than the nasty meat. The public was like [I]"eww it sounds like we're eating some nasty meat"[/I] and totally ignored the worker angle. Roosevelt was like [I]"I think he's a Commie liar, but the public won't shut up about this people-lard business"[/I] and so he sent his boys to the meat plants and they were all like "[I]yeah TR, I dunno about all that jive Sinclair wrote about, but it's p. nasty in here, brah."[/I] and Roosevelt was like [I]"well fawk me runnin' "[/I] and the Meat Inspection Act was passed. We're talking about the Triangle Shirtwaist time period, here. Somehow I'm of the belief that yeah, they could use a bit of reining-in. Turn-of-the-century industry could be a bit like a villain from a Dickens novel sometimes. [/QUOTE]

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