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by K
About This Novel
More than a hundred years ago, American writer Upton Sinclair wrote a book that shocked the United States. Upton Sinclair, like his Chinese counterpart Xia Yan, personally went to the slaughterhouse to "lurk" for seven weeks and truthfully recorded all the horrific facts, which directly triggered a strong response from the American public on food safety and hygiene, and ultimately alarmed the U. S. Government, directly promoting the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Administration Act and the establishment of the U. S. Food and Drug Administration. The latter became the patron saint of American food safety over the next hundred years. This social effect was so good that the author later joked: "I wanted to touch the public's hearts, but unexpectedly hit their stomachs." This is actually a book about fate and struggle.
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Official(1)Scraped 4d ago
It's really good-looking, revealing the shady story of American food factories in the 1920s and 1930s.
The content is indeed shocking and frightening. The food safety issue is very similar to China today.
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Official(1)Scraped 4d ago
It's really good-looking, revealing the shady story of American food factories in the 1920s and 1930s.
The content is indeed shocking and frightening. The food safety issue is very similar to China today.
