The Jungle

“it wasn't until that book you mentioned the jungle uh was published in 1905 that people like really sat up and took notice and Congress acted almost immediately passed the Pure Food and Drug Act the next year that's the impact that Upton St Clair's the jungle had”

“a gentleman named Upton Sinclair like you said a uh hardcore socialist and a writer who wrote the very very uh famous book The Jungle about well most people if they've never read the jungle probably say yeah it's about exposing the the meat packing in Chicago”

“so um when he wrote The Jungle he interviewed first of all he witnessed what he wrote about firsthand”

“Wy um read the jungle do all that stuff and uh just see how gross out you can get before you vomit”

“Go read The Jungle by Upton Sinclair or the history of the Triangle Sherk Waist Fire for a refresher on how workers were treated at that time.”

“Like if you go and read like the the jungle is like probably the best book that highlights this. But you go and read humanity discovered these new technologies.”

“this is uh this is overall something that uh Upton Sinclair would would applaud right the author of The Jungle right and that that uh piece of Journalism played a huge role in the consumer protections that exist in the United States today”

“this opens the door to return to the days of Upton Sinclair's the jungle”

“it reminded me of a book called The Jungle”

“other people will point at things like the jungle”

“one of the primary motivating factors for the creation of the FDA was a book a quite disturbing book about stockyards in Chicago it was called the jungle written by a guy named Upton Sinclair”

“upton sinclair who authored the jungle ran back to his apartment and wrote down what he saw”

“Upton Sinclair what he wrote the jungle he saw everything and then he ran back to his hotel I wrote it all down”

“Upton Sinclair what he wrote the jungle he saw everything and then he ran back to his hotel”

“One of the things that leads that actually changes this that like really is a huge factor is a book called The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, which I'm sure most people are at least broadly familiar with. Um Upton went undercover for months in a Chicago meatpacking neighborhood”

“So, it's worth noting that when The Jungle was published as a proper book like outside of like a magazine thing when it finds its publisher, the publisher insisted on sending a copy of the manuscript to the Chicago Tribune and they're like, hey, here's the book we're publishing.”

“The New York Times goes on to note, quote, about a month after The Jungle was published, the White House started receiving 100 letters a day demanding a federal cleanup of the meat industry. Roosevelt invited Sinclair to the White House then ordered a federal investigation.”

“Think of like, you know, more denzian. Think of like, you know, Upton Sinclair and the way workers were treated in, you know, in the jungle. Think of the triangle shirt waist fire.”

“That was much more like, think of, you know, more denzian. Think of like, you know, Upton Sinclair and the way workers were treated in, you know, in the jungle.”

“that's that's the jungle that's up to sinclair he's a socialist tried to be governor of california”

“First of all, overwhelmingly undocumented immigrants from our our our farms that are picking most of the food we eat, even to our slaughter houses, which are more corporate concentrated than during the time of uh uh Upton Sinclair's The Jungle.”

“you know upton sinclair you know who wrote the jungle said very famously it's hard to convince a man of something when his salary depends on him not believing it”

“Well, you know, read read The Jungle by Upton Sinclair to get a sense of, you know, how horrible it was to work in the factories of that era.”

“Uh, to this day it's like you know, you've got Upton Sinclair reporting on meat packing in the jungle, right? And then you've also got as recently as last year, there were those meat packing scandals”

“that frankly like if bernie and elizabeth want those to change and i think that they do they should stop talking about amazon and talk about those like put a camera in one of those factories for a day like have the new what was what's that famous book about the meatpacking industry the oh oh yeah jungle or something”

“I wrote about this in my first book which is what I'd read your book for um and and and actually as it happens Upton Sinclair wrote this expose of journalism in the 1900s right like right after he wrote The Jungle.”

“normally I am for Less government and more freedom and more of a free market but I'm always reminded of President Theodore Roosevelt reading Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle”

“So, you're back, if you will, to The Jungle. The Jungle is Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel, an expose of the harsh work conditions in Chicago's meat packing industry.”

“So Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, and we're in exactly the same moment, including the uh Gilded Age.”

“Nupton Sinclair was 100% right. There's a reason that we mention him so often.”

“I mean, this sounds like the kind of stuff that Upton Sinclair wrote about in 'The Jungle' like back, you know what I mean?”

“They're certainly not really old, because at least in the United States, it wasn't until that book you mentioned, The Jungle, was published in 1905 that people like really sat up and took notice, and Congress acted almost immediately and passed the Pure Food and Drug Act the next year.”

“That's the impact that Upton Sinclair's The Jungle had.”

“Like you said, he was a hardcore socialist and a writer who wrote the very famous book The Jungle about... Well, most people who have never read The Jungle probably say, 'Yeah, it's about exposing the meatpacking in Chicago, right?'”

“you know one of the primary motivating factors for the creation of the FDA was a book a quite disturbing book about stockyards in Chicago it was called the jungle written by a guy named Upton Sinclair and it shed a lot of light on things people would rather not think about”