Read the excerpt from a letter from Upton Sinclair President Theodore Roosevelt. There are a hundred streets and avenues by which diseased meat can enter the city and be put on sale in the markets.
The public has made no effort to find out and it is left to the men who deal in this merchandise to dump what they please
into the stomachs of the blissfully ignorant public. Neither do any of us know how much disease and suffering this food
causes.
What was a cost of the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906?