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From: AsianWeek
Date: 20040114
Author:Nash, Phil Tajitsu

Nash, Phil Tajitsu
AsianWeek
01-14-2004
"There was never the least bit attention paid to what was cut up for
sausage ... There would be meat stored in great piles in rooms; and the
water from leaky roofs would drip over it, and thousands of rats would race
about on it ... These rats were nuisances, and the packers would put
poisoned bread out for them; they would die, and then rats, bread and meat
would go into the hoppers together."

This passage, written 100 years ago in Chapter 14 of Upton Sinclair's The
Jungle, described a Chicago meatpacking industry that was so driven to
increase profits that ...

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