In 1906, Upton Sinclair's The Jungle aroused a massive public uprising over the unsanitary conditions inherent to the US's meatpacking industry. This style of journalism was known as "muckraking" and was common from 1890 through the 1930s, a period that mirrored what is now referred to as the Progressive Era. Sinclair's book and the subsequent public outcry resulted in the passage of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 (Food and Drug Administration in 1930). Although the Progressive Era has ended in a historical sense, it continues to thrive (or at least makes constant attempts to maintain relevancy).
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