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We are what we eat, so make humane choices

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From: Winnipeg Free Press
Date: 20060702
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The Way We Eat

Why Our Food Choices Matter

By Peter Singer and

Jim Mason

Rodale, 328 pages, $35

Reviewed by Jill Wilson

IN 1906, Upton Sinclair published The Jungle, his muckraking novel about Chicago's meat-packing industry.

The book was not only a popular success, it inspired political action. Its descriptions of unsanitary, stomach-turning conditions, corrupt practices and badly treated workers led then-president Theodore Roosevelt to establish the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and to implement federal inspection standards for meat.

Amazingly, 100 years later, filthy, cruel conditions ...

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