Deregulation Follies: Pork Plants Taking Over Inspections

04/06/2019 Over 100 years ago Sinclair Lewis wrote “The Jungle“. While the book’s main focus was an account of the grinding poverty faced by immigrants, it painted a compelling picture of conditions in America’s meatpacking industry. It wasn’t pretty. Lewis’s book struck a nerve that prompted US President Theodore Roosevelt to appoint a commission to … Read more