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alanjjohnstone
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/07/the-price-of-plenty-how-beef-changed-america

“…The Jungle’s heart-wrenching critique of industrial capitalism was lost on readers more worried about the rat faeces that, according to Sinclair, contaminated their sausage. Sinclair later observed: “I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.” He hoped for socialist revolution, but had to settle for accurate food labelling…”