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Can we housebreak capitalism? The public actually values safe products, a clean environment, and honest markets.(REDEEMING GOVERNMENT)

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From: The American Prospect
Date: 20050501
Author:Goozner, Merrill

THIS YEAR MARKS THE CENTENNIAL OF UPTON Sinclair's The Jungle, and it's sobering to imagine how that expose of working conditions in Chicago's meatpacking plants might fare before the Bush administration's Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the contemporary gatekeeper for proposed regulations.

The lightly fictionalized novel's most grisly passage showed workers slipping, falling, and being rendered into "Durham's Pure Leaf Lard." Within a year, Congress passed the Pure Food and Drugs and Meat Inspection acts, thus creating the nation's first health and safety regulatory ...

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