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COLUMN: Meatpacking plants pack painful punch for workers

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From: University Wire
Date: 20080110
Author:Sean Tarver

Sean Tarver
University Wire
01-10-2008
(The Daily Cougar) (UWIRE) HOUSTON -- In 1906 Upton Sinclair introduced society to The Jungle, a novel describing many subcultures of our economy. The Jungle describes in detail many aspects of the meatpacking industry: men falling into grinders to be packaged with animal meat, children working under standards that adults could barely face, rotten meat covered in barbecue sauce and sold. The tragic events told in the book caused major concern and helped create the Food and Drug Administration.

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